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020			_a9781541697522 _q(hardcover)
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020			_z9781541697515 _q(electronic book)
020			_z1541697510 (ebook)
035			_a(OCoLC)on1003310646
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050	0	0	_aQP34.5 _b.F698 2018
060	0	0	_a2018 G-233
060	1	0	_aQT 104
100	1		_aFrancis, Gavin,
245	1	0	_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, _c2018.
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.
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."-- _cPublisher.
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.
650		0	_aHuman physiology.
650		0	_aDevelopmental biology.
650		0	_aLife cycle, Human.
655		4	_aNonfiction.
650		7	_aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aMEDICAL / Essays. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aMEDICAL / Physician & Patient. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aDevelopmental biology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00891773
650		7	_aHuman physiology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00963183
650		7	_aLife cycle, Human. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00998248
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