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Liberating medicine, 1720-1835
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Tristanne J. Connolly,Clark, S. H. |
"During the eighteenth century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack 'bar… |
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Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith
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Harold Bloom |
A selection of critical essays on Lewis's novel scrutinizing the medical profession. |
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The age of hypochondria
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George C. Grinnell |
"Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of th… |
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Mentored by a madman
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Lees, Andrew |
"A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled … |
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The Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia
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Orlando Park |
An Encyclopedia of Their Affairs
>A complete guide to the people, towns, streets, estates, railway stations, the objects--in fact, everything--in the 56 stories and 4 novels making up the work of … |
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Nervous acts
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G. S. Rousseau |
"Between 1965 and 2000 George Rousseau wrote a series of landmark essays about the role of the nervous system in the rise of literature and sensibility that altered the landscape of eighteenth-centur… |
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The physician's tale
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
xxix, 171 p. : 26 cm |
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Boswell's clap and other essays
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William B. Ober |
The ten essays selected for this volume range from an investigation of Boswell's repeated infection with gonorrhea to a critical examination of Plato's account of Socrates's death in the Phaedo, subj… |
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Creative Healers
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Edward Day Harris Jr. |
xii, 532 p. : 24 cm |
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