Like a third of the UK population, Julia has a chronic pain condition. According to her doctors, it can't be cured. She doesn't believe them. She does believe in miracles, though. It's just a question of tracking one down. Julia's search for a cure takes her on a global quest, exploring the boundaries between science, psychology and faith with practitioners on the fringes of conventional, traditional and alternative medicine. Raising vital questions about the modern medical system, Heal Me is also a story about identity in a system skewed against female patients, and the struggle to retain a sense of self under the medical gaze.
ISBN: | 9781474601528 |
Publication date: | 10th January 2019 |
Author: | Julia Buckley |
Publisher: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 346 pages |
Genres: |
Autobiography: science, technology and medicine Memoirs Popular medicine and health Travel writing |