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…

Where grass is greener

Nature Writing in 2014 1 Philip Hoare’s previous book Leviathan, or The Whale—which won the 2009 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction—was dominated by one big idea, as advertised in its title; The Sea Inside starts off as an exploration of the big idea’s medium, the vast connected body of salty water on our planet that…