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A Doctor's Dictionary: Writings on Culture and Medicine, by Iain Bamforth

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In this pithy abecedarium, doctor and poet Iain Bamforth takes a close look at the conflict of values embodied in what we call medicine – never entirely a science and no longer quite the art it used to be. Bamforth brings his wide experience of medicine around the world, from the high-tech American Hospital of Paris to the community health centres of Papua, together with his engaging interest in the stranger manifestations of medical matters in relation to art, literature and culture – such as the mysterious ‘Stendhal’s syndrome’, which caused 106 tourists in Florence to be hospitalised due to an overload of sublime Renaissance art

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A Doctor's Dictionary: Writings on Culture and Medicine

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by Iain Bamforth

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Anecdote A Taste of Bitter Almonds -- Bodies The Plastinator -- Cynicism Knock! Knock! -- Depression A Conspiracy of Good Intentions -- Ethics Insomnia (in the Bed of Being) -- Funerals An American Book of the Dead -- Galen Crise de Foie -- Happiness The Moral Life of Happiness -- Integrity An Empty Plot -- Journeys Chekhov Goes to Sakhalin -- Kafka Uncle Siegfried -- Language Is There Life on Earth? -- Mouth Tell Me about Teeth -- Nose Hygiene of the Soul -- Obit The Importance of Being an Agoraphobe -- Posture The Human Position -- Qi Emergent Properties. -- Resilience A Mining Town in AustraliaScience (envy) Lamplighters and Lucefactors -- Translating Machine Made of Words -- Upas The Poison Tree -- Vertigo Stendhal's Syndrome -- Weightlessness The War of Eye and Ear -- X-rays Under the Magic Mountain -- Yellow Fever The Life and Times of Ernst Weiss -- (meta- ) Zoology Parasites -- Endnotes -- Index of Names -- About the Author -- By the Same Author -- Copyright