A review by anna7777
Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body by Gavin Francis

3.0

While I'm normally not the biggest fan of non-fiction books, I normally enjoy books that talk about medicine. With this book, I was sorely disappointed. It wasn't a memoir of his medical career but more a mix of the patients he had seen and the history behind their conditions. I found the way he talked about the two to be boring and not well set up. In one chapter, the author focuses on one medical ailment and uses a case he has seen with supporting historical information to support it. The way he constantly switches between the two interrupts the flow of the book and just generally felt weird to me. I felt that he didn't go into depth enough when presenting his patients' cases.

I also didn't get the message of the book. It wasn't very well presented.