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The body in the library : a literary history of modern medicine / edited by Iain Bamforth.

Van Pelt Library PN6071.M38 B35 2003
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bamforth, Iain.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medicine--History--Literary collections.
Medicine.
Social medicine--Literary collections.
Social medicine.
History.
Genre:
Literary collections.
Literature.
Physical Description:
xxx, 418 pages ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Verso, 2003.
Contents:
Introduction: The Body in the Library ix
The Black Veil / Charles Dickens 1
Woyzeck and the Doctor / Georg Buchner 13
Letter of 1812 / Fanny Burney 16
Illness as a Musical Problem / Rene Theophile, Hyacinthe Laennec 21
The Cure / Johann Peter Hebel 24
Employing Lydgate / George Eliot 27
Question of a Nose / Nikolai Gogol 40
The Operation / Gustave Flaubert 42
Making a Diagnosis / Soren Kierkegaard 54
Poems / Emily Dickinson 55
A Trial in Erewhon / Samuel Butler 57
The Future of the Doctor / Friedrich Nietzsche 62
Florence Nightingale / Lytton Strachey 64
Portrait of Charcot / Leon Daudet 81
Letter from Siberia / Anton Chekhov 88
Nationalism in Medicine / William Osler 99
The Curse of Eve / Arthur Conan Doyle 102
Doctor Glas / Hjalmar Soderberg 114
Victim to One Hundred and Seven Fatal Maladies Various Aphorisms / Jerome K. Jerome 127
People with Neuroses / Marcel Proust 129
The Medical Mistake / G.K. Chesterton 134
The Killer / Mikhail Bulgakov 138
Three Expressionist Poems / Gottfried Benn 151
On Medicine / Alain 154
A Country Doctor / Franz Kafka 156
The Machine Inside Us / Georges Duhamel 162
A Worker's Speech to a Doctor / Bertolt Brecht 167
Jean Beicke / William Carlos Williams 169
My Double / Alfred Doblin 177
The Triumph of Medicine / Jules Romains 180
Oedipus in Danger / Robert Musil 188
Illness / Virginia Woolf 191
Irrationalism and Modern Medicine / Gottfried Benn 201
Apprehension / Kurt Tucholsky 210
How the Poor Die / George Orwell 212
Aphorisms / Karl Kraus 223
Doctor in the Zone / Louis-Ferdinand Celine 224
The Stranger / Dezso Kosztolanyi 230
Socrates and his Physician / Paul Valery 233
Heart Suture / Ernst Weiss 240
Two Memoirs / Michel Leiris 253
Diary / Miguel Torga 256
The Fever Ward / Albert Camus 279
Treatment as a Moral Problem / Peter Bamm 287
The Silence of the Body / Guido Ceronetti 292
A Testimonial Advertisement / Samuel Beckett 299
Dialogue of the Deaf / Karl Valentin 300
The Interior Castle / Jean Stafford 303
Why I Left America / Richard Huelsenbeck 309
Instructions for the Use of Tranquillisers / Raymond Queneau 313
The Doctor and Money / Jean Reverzy 316
The Clinic / Weldon Kees 320
The Art of Healing / W.H. Auden 322
Clinical Vignettes / R.D. Laing 326
Clerk of Their Records / John Berger 333
The Building / Philip Larkin 341
The Death of Ivan Illich / Anthony Daniels 344
A Doctor's Month / Gael Turnbull 350
Lunch with a Pathologist / Dannie Abse 355
An Interview / Oliver Sacks 357
Doctor Frolic / Robert Pinsky 363
The Cunning Man / Robertson Davies 365
Suffering / Miroslav Holub 371
Making it Literal / Susan Sontag 374
A Statistician to his Love / Peter Goldsworthy 379
Save the Word / Thom Gunn 380
My Father's Death / Bert Keizer 382
Patient-Centred Verbs / Jeff Aronson 392
A Little Medical Afflictionary / Martin Winckler 395
Working Underground / Jonathan Kaplan 406.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxx).
ISBN:
1859845347
OCLC:
52921887

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