Shapeshifters (Ebook)
A Doctor’s Notes on Medicine & Human Change
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Stories from the GP's waiting room, brought lyrically to life by the bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being
'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 Marsh
Timely, thought-provoking and eloquent, brimming both with warmth and insight, he puts himself among the ranks of ... Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande.' The Times
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.
Shapeshifters (Audiobook)
A Doctor’s Notes on Medicine & Human Change
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The mysteries of human transformation brought lyrically to life by the bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being
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.
Shapeshifters (Paperback)
A Doctor’s Notes on Medicine & Human Change
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Stories from the GP's waiting room, brought lyrically to life by the bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being
'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 Marsh
Timely, thought-provoking and eloquent, brimming both with warmth and insight, he puts himself among the ranks of ... Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande.' The Times
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.
Reviews for Shapeshifters
Henry Marsh
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Annie Dillard
James McConnachie The Sunday Times
Janice Turner The Times
Hilary Mantel
Scotland on Sunday
Brian Dillon Guardian
Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express
Susan Flockhart Sunday Herald
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