Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body - Hardcover

Francis, Gavin

 
9781541697522: Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1541697529 ISBN 13: 9781541697522
Verlag: Basic Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gavin Francis is a physician and the award-winning author of four books, including Adventures in Human Being, Empire Antarctica; and True North. A regular contributor to the London Review of Books, Guardian, and New York Review of Books, Francis lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1541697529
ISBN 13 
9781541697522
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
282
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