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Heal Me: In Search of a Cure

Julia Buckley

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Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Memoirs, Popular medicine & health, Travel writing

A brutally honest, darkly funny and profoundly moving memoir about the author's global search for a cure to chronic pain

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.

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Praise for Heal Me: In Search of a Cure

  • A timely, worrying and extremely important book - OBSERVER

  • Truly fascinating . . . a searingly honest first-hand account of Buckley's journey, both spiritual and physical, and an insightful, deeply researched story of pain from the multiple perspectives of medical science, psychology and faith. An absolute must-read on the subject - INDEPENDENT

  • An inspiring story about living with pain, and not being believed and never giving up - SUN

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Julia Buckley

Julia Buckley is a journalist from Cornwall whose work has appeared in the likes of National Geographic Traveller, CNN, the Independent and the Sunday Times, where she is assistant travel editor.

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