The Sacred Heart: An Atlas of the Body Seen Through Invasive Surgery (Book)
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This is a extended, edited excerpt from my intervierw with (now Dr.) Max Aguilera-Hellweg, who saw and photographed the strange and difficult beauty of the body as it undergoes radical surgery. While this is a long form audio story, I hoped to give a sense of the ways the spirit, the “hotness” of fleshy life and medical skill come together in the operating room, and which were compassionately exalted in his remarkable 1997 book.
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