Gavin Francis, MD, is a multi-award-winning author and GP who has worked across four continents as a surgeon, emergency physician, and medical officer with the British Antarctic Survey. He is the author of Sunday Times bestsellers Adventures in Human Being, Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change, and Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence, and has been shortlisted for such awards as the Saltire Literary Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year, Costa Book of the Year, and the Ondaatje Prize. His writing also appears in The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Guardian, The Times, the London Review of Books, and he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.