num_pages: 328
description: In this pithy abecedarium doctor and poet Iain Bamforth takes a close look at the conflict of values embodied in what we call medicinenever entirely a science and no longer quite the art it used to be. Bamforth brings his wide experience of medicine around the world from the high-tech American Hospital of Paris to the community health centers of Papua together with his engaging interest in the stranger manifestations of medical matters in relation to art literature and culturesuch as the mysterious Stendhals syndrome which caused 106 tourists in Florence to be hospitalized due to an overload of sublime Renaissance art.
language: English
title: A Doctor's Dictionary: Writings on Culture and Medicine
publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.