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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
- 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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