Metamorphoses. Surgeon"s journey through the most beautiful and terrible changes in the human body

Moonlight does not make people to be trellises, but the sunny one can (and it"s not about magic spells, but in the work of hemoglobin) It is unlikely that Hercules took steroids, but outbreaks of rage, just like modern bodybuilders, allow him to suspect him of this. The myth and reality are intertwined where life begins and ends and where the most bizarre metamorphoses occur in the human body.
Following Ovid Gavin Francis invites us to enjoy the magnificent sight of transformations that accompany our whole lives - from the embryo to the table in the pest.
The author of the book is a Scottish doctor and writer, author of the bestseller "The Journal of a Human Teling Human Walk. He worked as a doctor at the Antarctic Research Station and in a village clinic in West Africa. If possible, he goes to where he has not yet been, and studies from colleagues, not ceasing to be surprised at how complicated, fragile and beautiful the human body is