Heat and hope and attention

Body control in a time of chaos

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  • Published 20221101
  • ISBN: 978-1-922212-74-0
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

The Kingdom of Health, like the Kingdom of Heaven, is within you.
– Annie Riley Hale, early twentieth-century anti-suffrage,
anti-vaccination campaigner

WE WERE NEVER going to live forever, but this feels more apparent now than it has before.

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Sam van Zweden

Sam van Zweden is a non-fiction writer interested in food, memory, mental health and the body. Her debut book, Eating with My Mouth Open,...

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