The Body in the Library - Iain Bamforth
A Literary History of Modern Medicine
KORTE INHOUD
The Body in the Library provides a nuanced and realistic picture of how medicine and society have abetted and thwarted each other ever since the lawyers behind the French Revolution banished the clergy and replaced them with doctors, priests of the body. Ranging from Charles Dickens to Oliver Sacks, Anton Chekhov to Raymond Queneau, Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf, Miguel Torga to Guido Ceronetti, The Body in the Library is an anthology of poems, stories, journal entries, Socratic dialogue, table-talk, clinical vignettes, aphorisms, and excerpts written by doctor-writers themselves. Engaging and provocative, philosophical and instructive, intermittently funny and sometimes appalling, this anthology sets out to stimulate and entertain. With an acerbic introduction and witty contextual preface to each account, it will educate both patients and doctors curious to know more about the historical dimensions of medical practice. Armed with a first-hand experience of liberal medicine and knowledge of several languages...
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(XXX)418 p. Bound in the publisher's grey cloth with dustjacket (In very good condition.) London/New York, Verso 2003 [Auteur: Bamforth, Iain] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: The Body in the Library. A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine]
