{"product_id":"9781460720134","title":"Fifty Beating Wonders","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike \u003cem\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air, Being Mortal\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies, Fifty Beating Wonders\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning book about the magnificent complexity of the human body and the miracle of being human. It is absorbing, uplifting, moving and celebratory - a wonder indeed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Emergency Department - loud, chaotic and heaving with broken bodies - seems an unlikely place to find marvelment. But what if there was a seam of joy, of wonder, of fascination running through it and all you had to do was notice? Because, sometimes, the antidote to trauma, to horror, is ... wonder.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFifty Beating Wonders\u003c\/em\u003e is a book about the marvels and majesty of the human body from the point of view of an Emergency Physician who has spent the past thirty-five years with her hands and her own heart dedicated to trying to fix those bodies when they come in broken. It is a book that travels into the emergency room and deep into the human body - and into the mind and the hands of one doctor trying to figure out why her heart is beating so fast every time she steps into that department. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of one shift, and one catastrophic motorcycle crash, \u003cem\u003eFifty Beating Wonders\u003c\/em\u003e goes on a journey behind the battered doors of an inner-city emergency department and into the wonders of the astonishing human body, to discover that in every unsung, overlooked part of what makes us human, there is absurdity, marvel, awe and surprise. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about the human body. It's a book about when that body goes wrong. It's about the inestimable wonders of human pathology and the modern medicine that goes about trying to right it. But it's also about a life in emergency medicine, about inequity, about hope, about balance, about connectedness. It is a love-song to what makes us human and a polemic about how and why we fail. It's about joy, it's about what really happens inside the doors of a hospital, it's about failures, it's about triumphs. It is a book about the most wondrous question of all, what makes us human?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michelle Johnston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462376865941,"sku":"9781460720134","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781460720134.jpg?v=1781802670","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781460720134","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}