Includes poems by writers from the dawn of Enlightenment to the 21st Century and explores changing attitudes to medicine, health and the body. The book is divided into eight thematic sections, each of which includes a chronological range of poetry...
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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Includes poems by writers from the dawn of Enlightenment to the 21st Century and explores changing attitudes to medicine, health and the body. The book is divided into eight thematic sections, each of which includes a chronological range of poetry and excerpts of important historical and contextual medical writing Extended contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword and acknowledgements -- Note on text -- Introduction -- Body as machine -- Nerves, mind and brain -- Consuming -- Illness, disease and disability -- Treatment -- Hospitals, practitioners and professionals -- Sex, evolution, genetics and reproduction -- Aging and dying -- Bibliography -- Index
