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020			_a9781788161411
082			_a306.461 FRA-G
100			_aFrancis, Gavin
245			_aShapeshifters : _bon medicine & human change / _cGavin Francis
260			_aIndia _bWellcome Collection _c2018
300			_a282 p.
365			_aINR _b599.00.
500			_aShapeshifters: 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
650			_aCivilization
650			_aHuman body--Social aspects
650			_aDevelopmental biology
650			_aHuman physiology
650			_aLife cycle, Human