This unique collection of medical stories approaches its theme from many eras and perspectives. Some of the authors included were themselves physicians, notably Chekhov, Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham and William Carlos Williams. Bulgakov, too, draws on his own experience as a doctor in rural Russia a century ago, while Anna Kavan's story from Asylum Piece, takes a surreal look inside a Swiss psychiatric clinic, and Lorrie Moore's witty, grief-stricken Mother in 'People Like Us Are the Only People Here' examines the feelings of a parent with a child in the Paediatric Oncology war - 'Peed Onk'. Maupassant, Stevenson, Kipling, Conrad, Graham Greene, O. Henry, J. G. Ballard, Robert Heinlein, Dorothy Parker, Jhumpa Lahiri and Alice Munro all feature. Doctors observe patients; patients observe doctors. Nurses go about their important business, not always appreciated. Not quite everyone is healed. The meaning of illness - does it have any? -
and of life itself, is called into question - and all in the most entertaining way imaginable.
Edited by:
Theo Dalrymple Imprint: Everyman's Library Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 189mm,
Width: 124mm,
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 506g ISBN:9781841596297 ISBN 10: 1841596299 Series:Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Pages: 512 Publication Date:01 June 2021 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Primary
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
