TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wagner,Corinna
AU  - Brown,Andy
TI  - A body of work: an anthology of poetry and medicine 
SN  - 9781472511812
AV  - PN56.M38 B64 2016
U1  - 821.00803561 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
KW  - Medicine in Literature
KW  - Poetry as Topic
KW  - Medicine in literature
KW  - Diseases in literature
KW  - Sick in literature
KW  - English poetry
KW  - American poetry
KW  - fast
KW  - Gesundheit
KW  - gnd
KW  - Körper
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Medizin
N1  - 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; Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-517) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -