The Best Medicine: Stories of Healing

ISBN-13: 9780593318584 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 512 str.

Theodore Dalrymple

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Preface
 
THE DOCTOR S EXPERIENCE
 
Anton Chekhov, A Doctor s Visit
Samuel Warren, The Forger
Elizabeth Berridge, The Hard and the Human
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sweethearts
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Embroidered Towel
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher
J. G. Ballard, Minus One
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
 
CONSULTATIONS
 
W. W. Jacobs, Back to Back
Guy De Maupassant, A Coup d État
Graham Greene, Doctor Crombie
Anna Kavan, Airing a Grievance
W. Somerset Maugham, Lord Mountdrago
Julian Maclaren-Ross, I Had to Go Sick
Lorrie Moore, People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling In Peed Onk
 
DEALING WITH ILLNESS
 
Rudyard Kipling, Swept And Garnished
O. Henry, Let Me Feel Your Pulse
William Carlos Williams, The Paid Nurse
Joseph Conrad, Amy Foster
Dorothy Parker, Lady With a Lamp
Robert A. Heinlein, Life-Line
Rhys Davies, I Will Keep Her Company
Alice Munro, The Moons of Jupiter

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THEODORE DALRYMPLE is a British cultural critic, prison doctor, and psychiatrist. He has practiced medicine in a number of sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London and in Birmingham. He is a contributing editor to City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute, where he is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow. His work has also appeared in The British Medical Journal, The Times (London), The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, and National Review, among others.