Everyman's Library Pocket Classics #: The Best Medicine

Stories of Healing

Everyman's Library Pocket Classics #: The Best Medicine
Theo Dalrymple
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Hardback
h195 x 126mm - 512pg
1 Apr 2021 UK
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9781841596297
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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

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ISBN-13: 9781841596297
Published: 1 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Publisher: Everyman
Format: Hardback
Height: 195mm
Width: 126mm
Spine: 40mm
Weight: 750g
Pages: 512

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