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The Body in the Library: A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine

By Iain Bamforth (Editor), W. H. Auden (Contribution by), Peter Bamm (Contribution by), Samuel Beckett (Contribution by), Gottfried Benn (Contribution by)
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By Iain Bamforth (Editor), W. H. Auden (Contribution by), Peter Bamm (Contribution by), Samuel Beckett (Contribution by), Gottfried Benn (Contribution by)
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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, ...

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