Unpositioned Something is wrong

Shapeshifters : on medicine and human change / Gavin Francis

An examination of the physical and psychological transformations human bodies undergo, from universal experiences like ageing to specific changes such as pregnancy and gender transition. It analyses the biological and philosophical nature of identity.

Author

ISBN

Publisher

TAGS

Curated Derived

Biography Communication Folklore History Life Sciences Literature Medicine Philosophy Science Social Sciences Wit and Humor

CONNECTIONS

No connections

LOCATION HISTORY

No location history available for this book.

FULL RECORD

Accession Number: 13720

Site: Vernon O Content

Collection: N/A

Location: N/A

Binding Type: Hard Back

Book Images

Hover to see live images

No live

Shapeshifters : on medicine and human change / Gavin Francis cover

No live

VERNON DATA

Anecdotes/Biography/History Anecdotes/Wit and humour/Literature/Philology Life (Biology) Medical fiction/Fiction/Literature/Philology Medicine -- Research/Life sciences/Science Medicine and psychology/Psychology, Applied/Psychology Medicine/Life sciences/Science Quality of life/Life

{
  "slug": "shapeshifters-on-medicine-and-human-change-gavin-francis",
  "opacObjectId": "21903",
  "opacCollection": {
    "opacCollectionId": "1"
  },
  "imagesCollection": {
    "images": [
      {
        "imageId": "21968",
        "cssColors": [
          {
            "hex": "708090",
            "hue": 210,
            "rank": 1,
            "presence": 24.39,
            "colorName": "slategray",
            "lightness": 50,
            "colorGroup": "gray",
            "saturation": 13,
            "formattedColorName": "slate gray"
          },
          {
            "hex": "f5f5f5",
            "hue": 0,
            "rank": 2,
            "presence": 53.21,
            "colorName": "whitesmoke",
            "lightness": 96,
            "colorGroup": "white",
            "saturation": 0,
            "formattedColorName": "white smoke"
          },
          {
            "hex": "a52a2a",
            "hue": 0,
            "rank": 3,
            "presence": 6.18,
            "colorName": "brown",
            "lightness": 41,
            "colorGroup": "brown",
            "saturation": 59,
            "formattedColorName": "brown"
          },
          {
            "hex": "778899",
            "hue": 210,
            "rank": 4,
            "presence": 14.48,
            "colorName": "lightslategray",
            "lightness": 53,
            "colorGroup": "gray",
            "saturation": 14,
            "formattedColorName": "light slate gray"
          },
          {
            "hex": "bc8f8f",
            "hue": 0,
            "rank": 5,
            "presence": 1.62,
            "colorName": "rosybrown",
            "lightness": 65,
            "colorGroup": "brown",
            "saturation": 25,
            "formattedColorName": "rosy brown"
          }
        ],
        "rawColors": [
          {
            "hex": "393d3d",
            "hue": 180,
            "rank": 1,
            "presence": 24.39,
            "lightness": 23,
            "saturation": 3
          },
          {
            "hex": "ecebea",
            "hue": 30,
            "rank": 2,
            "presence": 53.21,
            "lightness": 92,
            "saturation": 4
          },
          {
            "hex": "8f4950",
            "hue": 354,
            "rank": 3,
            "presence": 6.18,
            "lightness": 42,
            "saturation": 32
          },
          {
            "hex": "8a8f8f",
            "hue": 180,
            "rank": 4,
            "presence": 14.48,
            "lightness": 55,
            "saturation": 2
          },
          {
            "hex": "c59b9e",
            "hue": 355,
            "rank": 5,
            "presence": 1.62,
            "lightness": 69,
            "saturation": 26
          },
          {
            "hex": "71746b",
            "hue": 80,
            "rank": 6,
            "presence": 0.12,
            "lightness": 43,
            "saturation": 4
          },
          {
            "hex": "5c7c7c",
            "hue": 180,
            "rank": 7,
            "presence": 0.0,
            "lightness": 42,
            "saturation": 14
          }
        ],
        "imageLabels": [
          {
            "count": 19233,
            "score": 84.17,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Font",
            "imageLabelId": 12
          },
          {
            "count": 10984,
            "score": 74.2,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Art",
            "imageLabelId": 4
          },
          {
            "count": 5558,
            "score": 69.74,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Pattern",
            "imageLabelId": 24
          },
          {
            "count": 3325,
            "score": 64.9,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Visual arts",
            "imageLabelId": 18
          },
          {
            "count": 4631,
            "score": 57.02,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Graphic design",
            "imageLabelId": 17
          },
          {
            "count": 41,
            "score": 55.87,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Printmaking",
            "imageLabelId": 289
          },
          {
            "count": 5787,
            "score": 53.49,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Illustration",
            "imageLabelId": 25
          },
          {
            "count": 1468,
            "score": 51.9,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Drawing",
            "imageLabelId": 62
          }
        ],
        "imageDerivatives": [
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/large/7839/8bbb1962f7cfec9af2c72eb28fe0dce58ad0f0f1.jpg",
            "width": "528",
            "height": "800",
            "identifier": "LARGE"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/medium/7839/8bbb1962f7cfec9af2c72eb28fe0dce58ad0f0f1.jpg",
            "width": "264",
            "height": "400",
            "identifier": "MEDIUM"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/nano/7839/8bbb1962f7cfec9af2c72eb28fe0dce58ad0f0f1.jpg",
            "width": "23",
            "height": "35",
            "identifier": "NANO"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/small/7839/8bbb1962f7cfec9af2c72eb28fe0dce58ad0f0f1.jpg",
            "width": "99",
            "height": "150",
            "identifier": "SMALL"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/tiny/7839/8bbb1962f7cfec9af2c72eb28fe0dce58ad0f0f1.jpg",
            "width": "50",
            "height": "75",
            "identifier": "TINY"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/xlarge/7839/8bbb1962f7cfec9af2c72eb28fe0dce58ad0f0f1.jpg",
            "width": "792",
            "height": "1200",
            "identifier": "XLARGE"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "totalImages": 1
  },
  "objectSearchScore": 0.31905985,
  "opacObjectFieldSets": [
    {
      "identifier": "accession_no",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "13720"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "name",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Shapeshifters : on medicine and human change / Gavin Francis",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "title",
              "value": "Shapeshifters : on medicine and human change / Gavin Francis"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "other_name",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "artist_last_first",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Francis, Gavin"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_date",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "2018",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "earliest_date",
              "value": "2018-01-01Z"
            },
            {
              "key": "latest_date",
              "value": "2018-12-31Z"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_date_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "edition",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "brief_desc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind and body that continue across the arc of human life."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "measure_desc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "credit_line",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "curr_loc_status",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Stored",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "curr_loc_status:\"Stored\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "ob_status",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Accessioned"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "lender",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_owner",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_type",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_start",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_expiry",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "object_type",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "object_type:\"Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "collection",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Main Collection/Library",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "collection:\"Main Collection/Library\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "London/England"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "physical_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm."
        },
        {
          "value": "Includes bibliographical references and index."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "language",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "English"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "isbn_issn",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "9781781257739"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "user_sym_1",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "306.461 FRA"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "usual_loc_being",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Open Shelving/Library/Roundhouse Complex"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_class",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Anecdotes/Biography/History",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Anecdotes/Biography/History\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Anecdotes/Wit and humour/Literature/Philology",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Anecdotes/Wit and humour/Literature/Philology\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Life (Biology)",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Life (Biology)\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Medical fiction/Fiction/Literature/Philology",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Medical fiction/Fiction/Literature/Philology\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Medicine -- Research/Life sciences/Science",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Medicine -- Research/Life sciences/Science\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Medicine and psychology/Psychology, Applied/Psychology",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Medicine and psychology/Psychology, Applied/Psychology\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Medicine/Life sciences/Science",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Medicine/Life sciences/Science\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Quality of life/Life",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Quality of life/Life\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_date",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_event",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_period",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_object",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_person",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_person",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_event",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_object",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "user_sym_9",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "relationshipsCollection": {
    "relationships": [
      {
        "relatedRecords": [
          {
            "slug": "gavin-francis",
            "title": "Gavin Francis",
            "relatedRecordId": "26678"
          }
        ],
        "relationshipId": "object_prod_pri_person",
        "relatedRecordType": "person",
        "totalRelatedRecords": 1
      }
    ],
    "totalRelationships": 1
  }
}