【内容简介】

心脏为什么会跳？癌症是什么因素导致的？我能“增强”我的免疫力吗？为什么我总想在夜间吃垃圾食品？我真的不应该躺在床上玩手机吗？为什么没有女士用的“伟哥”？怎样一眼辨识出虚伪的假笑？如果隐形眼镜卡在眼睛里了，会跑进脑子里去吗？该怎么负责任地（打电话）告诉黏人的前任你得了淋病？如何给自己打造一口棺材？

这些问题或一本正经或古灵精怪，但都多多少少关乎健康。在《假如身体会说话》中，作者詹姆斯·汉布林以俏皮的文笔，从外貌、感知、进食、饮水、性和死亡六个方面提出并回答了100个趣味问题，用通俗的语言纠正了有关医学与健康的误解和迷思，用毒舌的口吻吐槽了打着有益健康的幌子招摇撞骗的产品和服务，用趣味性的语调科普了身体的构造和健康的生活方式。

《假如身体会说话》由汉布林根据自己在《大西洋月刊》历时5年制作的一系列趣味科学视频整理扩展而成，他也因为这些视频作品被提名有“网络奥斯卡”之称的“威比奖”。

作者简介

詹姆斯·汉布林（James Hamblin）

因为作品轻松、风趣还略带毒舌，詹姆斯·汉布林上过年轻观众熟悉的《史蒂芬·科尔伯特晚间秀》（《扣扣熊晚间秀》），被网络媒体BuzzFeed称赞为“最好玩的医学博士”，他的推文还曾被《时代》周刊选为“年度最有影响力的推文”之一。

汉布林的头衔还有：医学博士、耶鲁大学公共卫生学院讲师、公共卫生和预防医学执业认证医师、《大西洋月刊》前专职作家和高级编辑，他的作品还见于《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等著名媒体。他曾受邀在美国科学院、哈佛医学院、哥伦比亚大学公共卫生学院、沃顿商学院等机构演讲，并主持美国精准医学计划的启动仪式，采访美国时任总统奥巴马。

汉布林另著有科普书《清洁：有关皮肤的新科学》，该书入选美国全国公共广播电台和《名利场》杂志年度最佳图书书单，以及《史密森尼》杂志年度最佳科学图书书单。

【 Content Introduction 】

Why does the heart beat? What causes cancer? Can I "boost" my immunity? Why do I always want to eat junk food at night? Am I really not supposed to lie in bed and play with my phone? Why is there no Viagra for women? How to identify a fake smile at a glance? If a contact lens gets stuck in your eye, can it get into your brain? How do you responsibly tell a clingy ex that you have gonorrhea? How do you build yourself a coffin?

These questions may be serious or whimsical, but they are more or less related to health. In "If Bodies Could Talk," author James Hamblin asks and answers 100 interesting questions about appearance, perception, eating, drinking, sex, and death in playful prose, using plain language to correct misconceptions and myths about medicine and health, and using a sarcastic tone to tease products and services that are marketed as being good for health. With an interesting tone, it popularized the structure of the body and a healthy lifestyle.

If Bodies Could Talk is based on a series of fun science videos Hamblin made over the course of five years at The Atlantic, for which he has been nominated for a Webby Award, the "Oscars of the Web."

About the author

James Hamblin

Because of his lighthearted, funny and slightly biting work, James Hamblin has appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert (QQ Bear), which is familiar to young viewers, was praised by BuzzFeed as the "funniest M.D.," and his tweets were once selected by Time magazine as one of the "most influential tweets of the year."

Hamblin's other titles include: M.D., lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health, licensed physician in public health and Preventive Medicine, former staff writer and senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post and other prominent media outlets. He has been invited to speak at the American Academy of Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Columbia University School of Public Health, Wharton Business School and other institutions, and presided over the launch of the US Precision Medicine program, interviewed the then US President Barack Obama.

Hamblin is also the author of the popular science book Clean: The New Science of Skin, which made the National Public Radio and Vanity Fair lists of the year's Best Books, and Smithsonian Magazine's list of the year's best science Books.