What is the Body's Biggest Organ?

Lyman, Monty.  The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest 

       Organ.  New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020.  ISBN: 9780802129406

So you think you know all about anatomy?  Can you name the largest and one of the most important organs in the body?  If you called out anything other than skin, you need to go and listen to John Lithgow crooning "You Gotta Have Skin!"  As Monty Lyman makes very clear in this interesting tome, your skin does so much more than just keep your insides in!

In ten informative chapters, Monty Lyman takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of skin.  He starts off with a look at instances when the skin fails, and then dives into all the intricate layers of your skin.  He looks at how your skin reflects what is going on in your gut, how skin deals with light and sun exposure, and how it ages.  Skin plays a key role in your sense of touch, for both good an ill. How our skin looks and feels affects us psychologically while what we ink on our skin can affect us socially.  And then skin plays a part in our impression of others and their impression of us.  Finally Monty Lyman discusses how skin shapes our thinking in regard to religion, philosophy, and language.

Skin is so much more than just a container for bones and guts.  The Remarkable Life of the Skin provides the reader a readable entrance into the world of skin!