The Body in the Library: A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine

Poems, stories, journal entries, Socratic dialogue, table-talk, clinical vignettes, and aphorisms explore the role of medicine and its practitioners in society at large. Among the writers are Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Conan Doyle, Marcel Proust, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and Susan Sontag. There is no index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)