I find this book to be a wonderful resource for understanding our times and the schizophrenia surrounding appearance and corporeality in modernity. A journey through the various bodily perceptions in Western history, beginning with the rupture caused by the publication of Vesalius’s *Humani corporis fabrica* in 1543—the moment of rupture in seeing the interior and the loss of cosmogonic sacralization through internal connections, as well as the body’s binding ties to the whole— nature, and rivers—whose metaphors in medieval works such as *Les évangiles des quenouilles*, a compendium of traditional women’s knowledge published in Bruges in 1480, reveal an organized repertoire of beliefs on various topics, including illness, daily life, education, remedies, and the human body. The separation of the body from the cosmos and the reorganization of new binaries—such as body and soul, or body-man—into a contemporary medicine that deals precisely with “the organism,” with the care of an abstraction; a modern medicine also in crisis that deals with the body and not exactly with the person.