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Berlin Alexanderplatz (Paperback)
Alfred D oblin; Translated by Michael Hofmann; Introduction by Michael Hofmann
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The Body in the Library provides a nuanced and realistic picture of
how medicine and society have abetted and thwarted each other ever
since the lawyers behind the French Revolution banished the clergy
and replaced them with doctors, priests of the body. Ranging from
Charles Dickens to Oliver Sacks, Anton Chekhov to Raymond Queneau,
Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf, Miguel Torga to Guido Ceronetti,
The Body in the Library is an anthology of poems, stories, journal
entries, Socratic dialogue, table-talk, clinical vignettes,
aphorisms, and excerpts written by doctor-writers themselves.
Engaging and provocative, philosophical and instructive,
intermittently funny and sometimes appalling, this anthology sets
out to stimulate and entertain. With an acerbic introduction and
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 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.
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