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Beschreibung
Unreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a GP. In his years of practising, Gavin Francis has seen it all: the promising law student trapped under the spell of anorexia; the bodybuilder whose use of illegal steroids threatens his fertility; the teenager agonising over the perplexing physical dramas of puberty; and the surprisingly upbeat woman growing a horn in the centre of her forehead. In Shapeshifters he draws on his patients' bodily transformations, both welcome and unwelcome, bringing together case histories and accounts from the history of medicine, art, literature, myth and magic to show how the very essence of being human is change.
Unreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a GP. In his years of practising, Gavin Francis has seen it all: the promising law student trapped under the spell of anorexia; the bodybuilder whose use of illegal steroids threatens his fertility; the teenager agonising over the perplexing physical dramas of puberty; and the surprisingly upbeat woman growing a horn in the centre of her forehead. In Shapeshifters he draws on his patients' bodily transformations, both welcome and unwelcome, bringing together case histories and accounts from the history of medicine, art, literature, myth and magic to show how the very essence of being human is change.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Biologie, Importe
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Wellcome Collection
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781781257739
ISBN-10: 1781257736
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Francis, Gavin
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Profile Books Ltd
Wellcome Collection
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 221 x 141 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Gavin Francis
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2018
Gewicht: 0,477 kg
Artikel-ID: 121935857