The Resource Shapeshifters : a journey through the changing human body, Gavin Francis
Shapeshifters : a journey through the changing human body, Gavin Francis
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The item Shapeshifters : a journey through the changing human body, Gavin Francis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life. To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo-such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter, sleeping, and healing-and those that only some of our bodies will: like getting a tattoo, experiencing psychosis, suffering anorexia, being pregnant, or undergoing a gender transition. In Francis's hands, each event becomes an opportunity to explore the meaning of identity and the natures-biological, psychological, and philosophical-of our selves. True to its own subject, Shapeshifters combines Francis's lyrical imagination and deep knowledge of medicine and the humanities for a life-altering read."--Publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- 282 pages
- Contents
-
- Transformation
- Werewolves: agitation at the full moon
- Conception: the first and second reason for existing
- Sleep: the chamber of dreams
- Bodybuilding: unhelmed by fury
- Scalp: of horns, terror and glory
- Birth: reshaping the heart
- Rejuvenation: an alchemy of youth and beauty
- Tattooing: the art of transformation
- Anorexia: the enchantment of control
- Hallucination: a sphere of devils
- Puberty: suddenly accelerated youth
- Pregnancy: the most meticulous work
- Gigantism: two giants of Turin
- Gender: the two lives of Tiresias
- Jetlag: the brain that holds the sky
- Bonesetting: an algebra of healing
- Menopause: third face of the goddess
- Castration: hope, love, and sacrifice
- Laughter: some eminency in ourselves ; Prosthetics: humanity 2.0
- Memory: palaces of forgetting
- Death: the celebration of life - Transformations
- Isbn
- 9781541697522
- Label
- Shapeshifters : a journey through the changing human body
- Title
- Shapeshifters
- Title remainder
- a journey through the changing human body
- Statement of responsibility
- Gavin Francis
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life. To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo-such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter, sleeping, and healing-and those that only some of our bodies will: like getting a tattoo, experiencing psychosis, suffering anorexia, being pregnant, or undergoing a gender transition. In Francis's hands, each event becomes an opportunity to explore the meaning of identity and the natures-biological, psychological, and philosophical-of our selves. True to its own subject, Shapeshifters combines Francis's lyrical imagination and deep knowledge of medicine and the humanities for a life-altering read."--Publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Francis, Gavin
- Dewey number
- 612
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Human physiology
- Developmental biology
- Life cycle, Human
- Label
- Shapeshifters : a journey through the changing human body, Gavin Francis
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-261) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Transformation -- Werewolves: agitation at the full moon -- Conception: the first and second reason for existing -- Sleep: the chamber of dreams -- Bodybuilding: unhelmed by fury -- Scalp: of horns, terror and glory -- Birth: reshaping the heart -- Rejuvenation: an alchemy of youth and beauty -- Tattooing: the art of transformation -- Anorexia: the enchantment of control -- Hallucination: a sphere of devils -- Puberty: suddenly accelerated youth -- Pregnancy: the most meticulous work -- Gigantism: two giants of Turin -- Gender: the two lives of Tiresias -- Jetlag: the brain that holds the sky -- Bonesetting: an algebra of healing -- Menopause: third face of the goddess -- Castration: hope, love, and sacrifice -- Laughter: some eminency in ourselves ; Prosthetics: humanity 2.0 -- Memory: palaces of forgetting -- Death: the celebration of life - Transformations
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- 282 pages
- Isbn
- 9781541697522
- Isbn Type
- (hb)
- Lccn
- 2018938201
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1003310646
- on1003310646
- OCoLC
- Label
- Shapeshifters : a journey through the changing human body, Gavin Francis
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-261) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Transformation -- Werewolves: agitation at the full moon -- Conception: the first and second reason for existing -- Sleep: the chamber of dreams -- Bodybuilding: unhelmed by fury -- Scalp: of horns, terror and glory -- Birth: reshaping the heart -- Rejuvenation: an alchemy of youth and beauty -- Tattooing: the art of transformation -- Anorexia: the enchantment of control -- Hallucination: a sphere of devils -- Puberty: suddenly accelerated youth -- Pregnancy: the most meticulous work -- Gigantism: two giants of Turin -- Gender: the two lives of Tiresias -- Jetlag: the brain that holds the sky -- Bonesetting: an algebra of healing -- Menopause: third face of the goddess -- Castration: hope, love, and sacrifice -- Laughter: some eminency in ourselves ; Prosthetics: humanity 2.0 -- Memory: palaces of forgetting -- Death: the celebration of life - Transformations
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- 282 pages
- Isbn
- 9781541697522
- Isbn Type
- (hb)
- Lccn
- 2018938201
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1003310646
- on1003310646
- OCoLC
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