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The Secret Body
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  • Published: 7 August 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529110975
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99

The Secret Body

How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live

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7 Aug 2022
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1 July 2021
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1 July 2021
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One of our most lauded scientist-writers shows how scientific breakthroughs are revealing astonishing new capabilities and possibilities for the human body

'Thrilling' BILL BRYSON
'Brilliant' TIM SPECTOR
'Extraordinary' ALICE ROBERTS

Welcome to a revolution in the science of you - this is the landmark new book from award-winning scientist Daniel M. Davis.

Imagine taking drugs to help you acquire new skills, or knowing years in advance the precise likelihood of developing specific cancers, or following a diet and health regime tailored to your microbiome, or even having continuous monitoring of your body's workings and well-being.

Written by an award-winning scientist, this landmark book shows how these radical and disconcerting possibilities have been made real. It is at once a gripping drama of scientific ingenuity, discovery and collaboration, and a vision of the human body of dizzying complexity and wonder.

'The startling new discoveries...are radically altering our understanding of how we function and what our future holds' BRIAN COX

'A big-picture forecast of how medicine stands on the threshold of a revolution that will radically change all of our lives' The Times
  • Published: 7 August 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529110975
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99
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Daniel M Davis

Daniel M. Davis is Head of Life Sciences and Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London. His previous books include The Beautiful Cure, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2018 and described by Henry Marsh as ‘one of the best accounts I have yet come across of the nature of biological science and discovery’; The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live; The Compatibility Gene, which was longlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and shortlisted for the Society of Biology book prize; and Self Defence: A Myth-Busting Guide to Immune Health, which was a Book of the Year in the Daily Mail. Davis has published over 150 research papers and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2025, he was awarded an MBE for services to science communication.
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