Humans Are Made of Flesh / L'Homme de chair

Is the brain made to think? And our flesh, is it made only to please? And what if our brain was made to animate our flesh? To tense and relax our muscles, to visit the world? We eat, it is a matter of muscle. We breathe, it is still a matter of muscle. Our blood circulates in our veins, it is always a matter of muscle. We work, we write, we build, we speak with our muscles. In this book, Michel Fardeau tells us and explains everything we have learned about our muscles. About their constitution. About their functioning. And especially about their subtle penetration by the nerve endings that give them life, movement, strength and resistance. And how this knowledge puts us on the path to a better understanding and a possible cure for these terrible diseases caused by the failures of this beautiful machinery, myopathies. Michel Fardeau, emeritus research director at the CNRS and honorary professor at the CNAM, has directed the Institute of Myology at the La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital since its creation by the French Association against Myopathies. He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences.