The body in the library
Subtitle: a literary anthology of modern medicine
By: edited by Iain Bamforth.
Contributors: Bamforth, Iain.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Medicine -- Literary collections.; Social medicine -- Literary collections.; Medicine in literature -- Collected works.; History of Medicine, Modern -- Collected works.; Literature, Modern -- Collected works.
Genres: Literary collections.; Collected works.
Description: "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.