A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (Canons) - Hardcover

John Berger,John Berger

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9781782115014: A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (Canons)

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ISBN 10: 1782115013 ISBN 13: 9781782115014

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd, 2015

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Book Description:

Berger's exploration of what it means to heal, now inducted into the Canons series nearly fifty years after its first publication

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In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unrecognizable to themselves. In the impoverished rural community in which he works, John Sassall tend the maimed, the dying, and the lonely. He is not only the dispenser of cures but the repository of memories. And as Berger and Mohr follow Sassall about his rounds, they produce a book whose careful detail broadens into a meditation on the value we assign a human life. First published thirty years ago, A Fortunate Man remains moving and deeply relevant--no other book has offered such a close and passionate investigation of the roles doctors play in their society.

"In contemporary letters John Berger seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience."--Susan Sontag

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