The literary companion to medicine : an anthology of prose poetry
From the author of The Alarming History of Medicine comes the perfect gift and reference book for doctors and medical students: a unique and entertaining anthology devoted to literature about medicine. A sampling of the writing in The Literary Companion to Medicine includes: the unforgettable Bob Sawyer of Charles Dickens, Emile Zola's send-up of Lourdes, Thomas Mann's vanished world of Swiss TB sanatoria, Brillat-Savarin's ironic table-talk of nineteenth-century slimmers, James Boswell's disorderly sex life, and the hilarity of the Parisian music hall star Le Petomane
Print Book, English, 1996
1st U.S. ed View all formats and editions
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996
Collected Work
ix, 431 pages ; 24 cm
9780312143473, 9780312313517, 0312143478, 0312313519
34115260
Includes index