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Shapeshifters : a journey through the changing human body

Francis, Gavin, author

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\"From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life. To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo-such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter, sleeping, and healing-and those that only some of our bodies will: like getting a tattoo, experiencing psychosis, suffering anorexia, being pregnant, or undergoing a gender transition. In Francis's hands, each event becomes an opportunity to explore the meaning of identity and the natures-biological, psychological, and philosophical-of our selves. True to its own subject, Shapeshifters combines Francis's lyrical imagination and deep knowledge of medicine and the humanities for a life-altering read.\"--Publisher.

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Subject: Human physiology. / Developmental biology. / Life cycle, Human.
• ISBN: 9781541697522, 1541697529

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QP34.5.F72 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE