Name: Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook (en Inglés)
SKU: 53295860
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Author: Iain Bamforth
ISBN: 9781903385951

portada Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook (en Inglés)

Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Galileo Publishers

Autor

Iain Bamforth

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

277

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781903385951

Categorías

Medicina: cuestiones generales

Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook (en Inglés)

Iain Bamforth (Autor) · Galileo Publishers · Tapa Blanda

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Scattered Limbs is a collection of anecdotes, observations and opinions, which restores a mythological dimension to the most obvious and yet enigmatic of subjects, the human body. In contrast to the utopian fuzziness offered by the WHOs definition of health health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmityScattered Limbs gets down and dirty and hunts intellectual minotaurs all the way back to their obscure lairs and labyrinths in pre-Homeric Greece.Written over twenty years, its entries range from aphorisms to anecdotes, which in their strangeness and baroque memorability, sometimes resemble Borges tales of imaginary beingsthough the imaginary beings here are often remarkable patients. The book moves between topics as diverse as Lao Tzu, Goya and his doctor, Rabelais and Rousseau, Platos perfect human, the nocebo effect (dark twin of the placebo effect), aromatherapy, mosquitoes, the TV series House, Franz Rosenzweig, Vincent van Goghs painting of an onion, Prussian ideas of fitness, the Book of Job, depression as a media-disseminated folk illness of the industrialised West, the Beatles contribution to the invention of the CT scan, The Magic Mountain, Freuds nephew and PR guru Edward Bernays, and not least the idea of professionalism, including a provocative disquisition: What is a good doctor?.