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It seemed at times an act of profound selfishness to have a child so that I might become a parent; but selfish too to have a child and stay the same or not to have one - unless the only honest choice would have been to try to become this kinder version of myself without the need to bring another into it In Sight a woman recounts her progress to motherhood while remembering the death of her own mother and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of the X-ray and his production of an image of his wife's hand; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter Anna; John Hunter's attempts to set surgery on a scientific
footing and his work as a collaborator with his brother William and the artist Jan van Rymsdyk on the anatomy of pregnant bodies What emerges is the realisation that while the search for understanding might not lead us to an absolute truth it is an end in itselfWonderfully intelligent brilliantly written and deeply moving Sight is a novel about how we see others and how we might know ourselves
footing and his work as a collaborator with his brother William and the artist Jan van Rymsdyk on the anatomy of pregnant bodies What emerges is the realisation that while the search for understanding might not lead us to an absolute truth it is an end in itselfWonderfully intelligent brilliantly written and deeply moving Sight is a novel about how we see others and how we might know ourselves
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