Covers & Spine: both front and back boards are undamaged with light wear at the edges and corners, spine is intact and solid with only minor bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, opening page has been neatly removed by previous owner presumably to keep personal gift inscription, author's signature is on the title page. Dust Jacket: undamaged with only light scuffing on surface and edges. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

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Title

Samuel Johnson in the Medical World : The Doctor and the Patient

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0521383269

ISBN 13

9780521383264

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Signed by Author(s)

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World History

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Samuel Johnson has become known to posterity in two capacities: through his own works as the great literary essayist of the eighteenth century, and through Boswell's Life, as a man--notoriously a medical patient with a string of physical and psychological ailments. John Wiltshire brings the two together in this original study of Johnson the writer as "doctor" and patient. The subject of modern medical historians' case studies, Johnson also cultivated the acquaintance of doctors in his own day, and was himself a "dabbler in physic." Dr. Wiltshire illuminates Johnson's life and work by setting them in their medical context and also examines the importance of medical themes in Johnson's own writings. He discusses the many parts of Johnson's work touching on doctors, medicine, hospitals and medical experimentation, and analyzes the central theme, running throughout, of human suffering--in body and mind--and its alleviation.

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In this 1991 book, John Wiltshire illuminates Johnson's life and work by setting them in their medical context, and also examines the importance of medical themes in Johnson's own writings. He discusses the many parts of Johnson's work touching on doctors, medicines, hospitals and medical experimentation, and analyses the central theme of human suffering and its alleviation.

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