| Description |
xxx, 418 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Black Veil / Charles Dickens -- Woyzeck and the doctor / Georg Buchner -- Letter of 1812 / Fanny Burney -- Illness as a musical problem / Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec -- The cure / Johann Peter Hebel -- Employing lydgate / George Elliot -- Question of a nose / Nikolai Gogol -- The operation / Gustave Flaubert -- Making a diagnosis / Soren Kierkegaard -- Poems / Emily Dickinson -- Trial in Erewhon / Samuel Butler -- Future of the doctor / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Florence Nightingale / Lyttong Strachey -- Portrait of Charcot / Leon Daudet -- Letter from Siberia / Anton Chekhov -- Nationalism in medicine / William Osler -- Curse of Eve / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Doctor Glas / Hjalmar Soderberg -- Victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies / Jerome K. Jerome -- Varios Aphorisms -- People with neuroses / Marcel Proust -- Medical mistake / G.K. Chesterton -- The killer / Mikhail Bulgakov --Three expressionist poems / Gottfried Benn -- On medicine / Alain -- Country doctor / Franz Kafka -- Machine inside us / George Duhamel -- Worker's speech to a doctor / Bertolt Brecht -- Jean Beicke / William Carlos Williams -- My double / Alfred Doblin -- Triumph of medicine / Jules Romains -- Oedipus in danger / Robert Musil -- Illness / Virginia Wolf -- Irrationalism and modern medicine / Gottfried Benn -- Apprehension / Kurt Tucholsky -- How the poor die / George Orwell -- Aphorisms / Karl Kraus -- Doctor in the zone / Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- The stranger / Dezso Kosztolanyi -- Socrates and his physician / Paul Valery -- Heart suture / Ernst Weiss -- Two memoirs / Michel Leiris -- Diary / Miguel Torga -- Fever ward / Albert Camus -- Treatment as a moral problem / Peter Bamm -- Silence of the body / Guido Ceronetti -- Testimonial advertisement / Samuel Beckett -- Dialogue of the deaf / Karl Valentin -- Interior castle / Jean Stafford -- Why I left America / Richard Huelsenbeck -- Instructions for the use of tranquillisers / Raymond Queneau -- The doctor and money / Jean Reverzy -- The clinic / Weldon Kees -- Art of healing / W.H. Auden -- Clinical Vignettes / R.D. Laing --Clerk of their records / John Berger -- The building / Philip Larkin -- Death of Ivan Illich / Anthony Daniels -- A doctor's month / Gael Turnbull -- Lunch with a pathologist / Dannie Abse -- An interview / Oliver Sacks -- Doctor Frolic / Robert Pinsky -- The cunning man / Robertson Davies -- Suffering / Miroslav Holub -- Making it literal / Susan Sontag -- A statistician to his love / Peter Goldsworthy -- Save the word / Thom Gunn -- My father's death / Bert Keizer -- Patient-centered verbs / Jeff Aronson -- A little medical afflictionary / Martin Winckler -- Working underground / Jonathan Kaplan |
| Summary |
"Engaging and provocative, philosophical and instructive, intermittently funny and sometimes appalling, this anthology sets out to stimulate and entertain. With an acerbic introduction and a 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 a knowledge of several languages, Iain Bamforth has scoured the literatures of Europe to provide a well-rounded and cross-cultural sense of what it means to be a doctor entering the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Medicine in literature.
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Medicine -- Literary collections.
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Social medicine -- Literary collections.
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Literature, Modern.
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History of Medicine.
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Medicine in Literature.
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History, Modern 1601-
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History, Modern 1601-
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| Genre/Form |
Collected Work.
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Anthologie
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| Author |
Bamforth, Iain.
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| LC no. |
2004299489 |
| ISBN |
1859845347 |
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