Shapeshifters

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.

De la nastere pana la moarte, o explorare lirica a rolului transformarii in viata umana A fi in viata inseamna a fi in metamorfoza perpetua: crestere, vindecare, invatare, imbatranire. In Shapeshifters, medicul si scriitorul Gavin Francis ia in considerare schimbarile inevitabile pe care le sufera toate corpurile noastre - cum ar fi nasterea, pubertatea si moartea, dar si rasul, somnul si vindecarea - si cele pe care doar unele dintre corpurile noastre le vor dori: tatuaj, experienta de psihoza, suferinta de anorexie, sarcina sau trecerea la o tranzitie de gen.