Notes to Iain Bamforth’s new book Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dream-Book
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Endnotes to Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook
SCATTERED LIMBS [Endnotes to Scattered Limbs: A medical dreambook Galileo 2020] [11] THE OTHER KIND OF HEALTH Inclusion of this now famous phrase of blankly utopian aspiration in the preamble to the WHO Constitution came at the prompting of its first Director-General Brock Chisholm (1896–1971), a Canadian psychiatrist and humanist. The Medical Garden, a collection…
Index to Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook
INDEX OF TITLES A balm in GileadA big barrel of humanityA children’s songA Chinese syllogismA comedy in four actsA common causeAdded valueA divorceA dream of moist marbleA fatal lethargyA fig-leafA flower in the breastcageA fortunate stateAfter virtueAfter youAgainst decompositionAgainst entitlementsA genuflectionA glib philosophyA hagiographyA hard thingA hospital lightA lispAll the gasA loopholeA lost causeAlways at…
A Doctor’s Dictionary
A copy of A Doctor’s Dictionary can be pre-ordered directly from my publisher Carcanet Press, or through Amazon. In this pithy abecedarium, doctor and poet Iain Bamforth takes a close look at the conflict of values embodied in what we call medicine – never entirely a science and no longer quite the art it used to be….
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