SHAPESHIFTERS

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 fertilit y/ the teenager agonising over the perplexing physical dramas of puberty/ and the surprisingly upbeat woman growing a horn in the ce ntre of her forehead. In Shapeshifters he draws on his patients' bodily transformations, both welcome and unwelcome, bringing togeth er case ...[Llegir més]