On the face of it: Kate Gies's It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished (2025) and Louis Kuhne's The Science of Facial Expression (1917)

Kate Gies's wonderful (and devastating) memoir, It Must Be Beautiful To Be Finished shows that the mainstream medical profession has a lot to answer for when it comes to deciding which bodies are "attractive," which ones need "fixing," and how all that should take place.

But there's another powerful thread running through this book -- and that should make those of us in the wellness world take a good, hard look at underlying ideas, as well. I provide some historical context by discussing book by a pioneer of naturopathy, Louis Kuhne: The Science of Facial Expression.

You can find out more on my Podcast.

Please buy Gies's book at your local independent bookseller or take it out of the library.

If you'd like to look at Kuhne's book in depth you can find it here.

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