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    A body of work : an anthology of poetry and medicine / edited by Corinna Wagner and Andy Brown.

    Contributor(s): Wagner, Corinna [editor.] | Brown, Andy, 1966- [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016Description: xxiii, 532 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472511812; 1472511816Other title: Anthology of poetry and medicineSubject(s): Medicine in Literature | Poetry as Topic | Medicine in literature | Diseases in literature | Sick in literature | English poetry | American poetry | American poetry | Diseases in literature | English poetry | Medicine in literature | Sick in literature | Gesundheit | Körper | Literatur | MedizinDDC classification: 821.00803561 LOC classification: PN56.M38 | B64 2016
    Contents:
    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.
    Summary: 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.
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    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.

    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 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.

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