Shapeshifters : on medicine & human change / Gavin Francis
Material type: TextPublication details: India Wellcome Collection 2018Description: 282 pISBN:- 9781788161411
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Shapeshifters: On Medicine and Human Change To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind and body that continue across the arc of human life. Some of these changes we have little choice about. We cant avoid puberty, the menopause, or our hair turning grey. Others may be welcome milestones along our path - a much-wanted pregnancy, a cancer cured, or a long-awaited transition to another gender. We may find ourselves turning down dark paths, towards the cruel distortions of anorexia, or the shifting sands of
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