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050 4 $aQP34.5$b.F72 2018
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100 1 $aFrancis, Gavin,$eauthor.
245 10 $aShapeshifters :$ba journey through the changing human body /$cGavin Francis.
246 3 $aShape shifters
250 $aFirst US edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bBasic Books,$c[2018]
264 4 $c℗♭2018
300 $a282 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"Wellcome collection."
500 $a"June 2018"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 248-261) and index.
505 0 $aTransformation -- Werewolves : agitation at the full moon -- Conception : the first and second reason for existing -- Sleep : the chamber of dreams -- Bodybuilding : unhelmed by fury -- Scalp : of horns, terror and glory -- Birth : reshaping the heart -- Rejuvenation : an alchemy of youth and beauty -- Tattooing : the art of transformation -- Anorexia : the enchantment of control -- Hallucination : a sphere of devils -- Puberty : suddenly accelerated youth -- Pregnancy : the most meticulous work -- Gigantism : two giants of Turin -- Gender : the two lives of Tiresias -- Jetlag : the brain that holds the sky -- Bonesetting : an algebra of healing -- Menopause : third face of the goddess -- Castration : hope, love and sacrifice -- Laughter : some eminency in ourselves -- Prosthetics : humanity 2.0 -- Memory : palaces of forgetting -- Death : the celebration of life -- Transformations.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aHuman physiology.
650 0 $aDevelopmental biology.
650 0 $aLife cycle, Human.
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