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Cover: 9781781257746 | Shapeshifters | A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change | Francis
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Shapeshifters
A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change
Taschenbuch von Gavin Francis
Sprache: Englisch

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'Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary Mantel'A wonderful series of meditations - clinical, anthropological, literary and deeply humane - on his patients and their illnesses.' Henry MarshTimely, thought-provoking and eloquent, brimming both with warmth and insight, he puts himself among the ranks of ... Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande.' The TimesUnreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a [...] 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 [...] 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.
'Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary Mantel'A wonderful series of meditations - clinical, anthropological, literary and deeply humane - on his patients and their illnesses.' Henry MarshTimely, thought-provoking and eloquent, brimming both with warmth and insight, he puts himself among the ranks of ... Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande.' The TimesUnreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a [...] 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 [...] 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.
Über den Autor
Gavin Francis has worked across four continents as a surgeon, emergency physician, medical officer with the British Antarctic Survey and latterly as a GP. He's the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Adventures in Human Being, which was a BMA Book of the Year, and Shapeshifters. His books have won the SMIT Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Saltire Award for Non-Fiction and been shortlisted for the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes. He also writes for the Guardian, The Times, the London Review of Books and Granta. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and children.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeine Lexika
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Wellcome Collection
ISBN-13: 9781781257746
ISBN-10: 1781257744
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Francis, Gavin
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Profile Books Ltd
Wellcome Collection
Abbildungen: Black and white images throughout
Maße: 198 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Gavin Francis
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2019
Gewicht: 0,251 kg
Artikel-ID: 114754184
Über den Autor
Gavin Francis has worked across four continents as a surgeon, emergency physician, medical officer with the British Antarctic Survey and latterly as a GP. He's the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Adventures in Human Being, which was a BMA Book of the Year, and Shapeshifters. His books have won the SMIT Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Saltire Award for Non-Fiction and been shortlisted for the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes. He also writes for the Guardian, The Times, the London Review of Books and Granta. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and children.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeine Lexika
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Wellcome Collection
ISBN-13: 9781781257746
ISBN-10: 1781257744
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Francis, Gavin
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Profile Books Ltd
Wellcome Collection
Abbildungen: Black and white images throughout
Maße: 198 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Gavin Francis
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2019
Gewicht: 0,251 kg
Artikel-ID: 114754184
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