The human body has a language through which it expresses its joys and sufferings, but it is also a language in itself, a "book of flesh". To learn to read the body is to be attentive to its drawing, to know how to decrypt the forms of the anatomical labyrinth; it is also to hear what the great myths of humanity tell us about the nature and subtle function of each of the organs; it is, finally, says Annick de Souzenelle, to rediscover the Tree of the...