Body in the Library
A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine
Iain Bamforth Iain Bamforth (Redaktør) Albert Camus (Innledning) Alfred Doblin (Innledning) Anton Chekhov (Innledning) Arthur Conan Doyle (Innledning) Bertolt Brecht (Innledning) Charles Dickens (Innledning) Deszö Kosztolányi (Innledning) Emily Dickinson (Innledning) Ernst Weiss (Innledning) Frances Burney (Innledning) Franz Kafka (Innledning) Friedrich Nietzsche (Innledning) G. K. Chesterton (Innledning) Georg Büchner (Innledning) George Eliot (Innledning) George Orwell (Innledning) Georges Duhamel (Innledning) Gottfried Benn (Innledning) Guido Ceronetti (Innledning) Gustave Flaubert (Innledning) Hjalmar Soderberg (Innledning) Jean Reverzy (Innledning) Jean Stafford (Innledning) Jerome K. Jerome (Innledning) Johann Peter Hebel (Innledning) Jules Romains (Innledning) Karl Kraus (Innledning) Karl Valentin (Innledning) Kurt Tucholsky (Innledning) Leon Daudet (Innledning) Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Innledning) Lytton Strachey (Innledning) Marcel Proust (Innledning) Michel Leiris (Innledning) Miguel Torga (Innledning) Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov (Innledning) Nikolai Gogol (Innledning) Paul Valéry (Innledning) Peter Bamm (Innledning) Raymond Queneau (Innledning) Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (Innledning) Richard Huelsenbeck (Innledning) Robert Musil (Innledning) Samuel Beckett (Innledning) Samuel Butler (Innledning) Soren Kierkegaard (Innledning) Virginia Woolf (Innledning) W. H. Auden (Innledning) Weldon Kees (Innledning) William Carlos Williams (Innledning)
The Body in the Library is a unique tour of the history of medicine and its practitioners. It 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. Les mer
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The Body in the Library is a unique tour of the history of medicine and its practitioners. It 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. But is that the right way to regard a profession that was once rough trade and arcane learning, that relishes the thespian as much as the white coat and which, for a long time, saw itself as a branch of criminology. 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, many of them written by doctor-writers themselves, which attempt to answer that question. 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, 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.
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, 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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Verso Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 424
- ISBN
- 9781859845349
- Utgivelsesår
- 2003
- Format
- 21 x 16 cm