The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill BrysonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was my first book by Bill Bryson. He is an excellent author - the book is easy to read and thoroughly researched. In this book author makes the subject of human body accessible to laymen. My interest in this book was to get a refresher of things i had read in biology classes in school days and topics that one hears being mentioned by health related books/articles - ranging from understanding of how the different organs, glands and parts of the body function, the different kinds of diseases, their symptoms and how they are acquired, our body's built-in defense mechanism (the immune system, white blood cells and the different glands that fight-off the harmful microbes entering our body - like the placenta that shields the womb/baby from the harmful microbes), aging and eventually death and the state of the body after one dies. It also mentions of the evolution of medical science to some extent and calls out the people who contributed to the field - sometimes at the cost of their own lives. A very interesting read.
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