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  SHAPESHIFTERS

  Gavin Francis

  • Profile Books
  • 15 Mai 2018
  • 9781781257739

  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.
  

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  ADVENTURES IN HUMAN BEING

  Gavin Francis

  • Profile Books
  • 4 Février 2016
  • 9781781253427

  Sunday Times bestseller We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being , Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot. Drawing on his own experiences as a doctor and GP, he blends first-hand case studies with reflections on the way the body has been imagined and portrayed over the millennia. If the body is a foreign country, then to practise medicine is to explore new territory: Francis leads the reader on an adventure through what it means to be human. Both a user's guide to the body and a celebration of its elegance, this book will transform the way you think about being alive, whether in sickness or in health. Published in association with the Wellcome Collection. WELLCOME COLLECTION Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. wellcomecollection.org Lire la suite Fermer

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  Rêver des îles : le voyage comme respiration philosophique

  Francis Gavin

  • Autrement
  • Essais
  • 5 Mai 2021
  • 9782746761414

  Espaces de solitude, de liberté, refuges mais aussi prisons, les îles nous fascinent. Mais cette obsession des îles, que dit-elle de notre manière d'habiter le monde ?
  Cet ouvrage magnifiquement illustré de cartes anciennes dessine une réflexion qui confronte les îles mythiques et les figures qu'elles abritent, d'Ulysse à Robinson Crusoé en passant par Thomas More et Virginia Woolf, à l'expérience du voyage, de l'isolement et de la vie sauvage. Sinuant entre fiction et exploration, c'est un parcours érudit, à la recherche de nos rêves et de leurs contradictions.
  

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  Aventures dans le corps humain

  Francis Gavin

  • Terra Nova
  • 9782824609645

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  De la tête aux pieds : aventures dans le corps humain

  Francis Gavin

  • City
  • 9782824619033

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