Body of Work
Subtitle: an Anthology of Poetry and Medicine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781472513298
Subjects: Diseases in literature; Medicine in literature; English poetry (collections); American poetry (collections)
Description: Includes poems by writers from the dawn of Enlightenment to the 21st Century and explores changing attitudes to medicine, health and the body. The book is divided into eight thematic sections, each of which includes a chronological range of poetry and excerpts of important historical and contextual medical writing.