Table of Contents

2009 Fall

Medicine

Introductory

• The God in the Machine: by Lewis H. Lapham

Voices in Time

Symptoms & Diagnoses

• Barbara Ehrenreich Confronts the Enemy: 2000 / Key West
• An Early Warning for Frigyes Karinthy: 1936 / Budapest
• Drawing Distinctions: 1542 / Padua
• Hippocrates Sets the Record Straight: c. 400 BC / Cos
• Germs: 1880 / Paris
• Albert Schweitzer Swarmed by Mosquitoes: 1914 / Lambaréné
• Diagnostic Manual: c. 1320 / Montpellier
• Collecting Symptoms: 1889 / London
• Kay Redfield Jamison Approaches the Abyss: 1974 / Los Angeles
• Riddling Distemper: 1624 / London
• Calm Before the Storm: 1868 / St. Petersburg
• The Body Does Not Lie: 1198 / Egypt
• The Emperor Has No Teeth: 1955 / Beidaihe
• Feminine Issues: c. 1100 / Salerno
• Abstinence Only: c. 120 / Rome
• Mastication: 1965 / New York City
• Short of Breath: 1926 / London
• Susan Sontag Reads the Charts: 1977 / New York City
• White-Man Giver: c. 1760 / Michigan
• Yin and Yang: c. 2650 BC / China
• Preventative Care: 1610 / Toulouse
• Cupid Dormant: 1984 / New York City

Doctors & Patients

• Anatole Broyard's Intimations of Mortality: 1990 / Cambridge, Mass.
• Molière Ridicules the Recourse to Physick: 1673 / Paris
• Elizabeth Blackwell Gains Admission: 1847 / Philadelphia
• John Barth in the Treatment Room: 1953 / Maryland
• Feng Shui: c. 1905 / Mohalis
• Job Description: c. 600 BC / India
• Atul Gawande Learns that More Is Less: 2009 / McAllen, Texas
• Paddy Chayefsky Makes the Rounds: 1971 / New York City
• Body Snatchers: 1554 / Montpellier
• Theory and Practice: c. 1020 / Persia
• Sigmund Freud Makes a Diagnosis: c. 1916 / Vienna
• William Carlos Williams Writes His Own Prescription: 1951 / Rutherford, N.J.
• Mikhail Bulgakov Performs a Tracheotomy: 1916 / Smolensk
• Felice Romani's Proper Cures and Panaceas: c. 1832 / Italy
• The Problem with Doctors: c. 170 / Pergamum
• Nazi Science: 1946 / Nuremberg
• Blood-soaked Soil: 1994 / Kigali
• Erectile Dysfunction: c. 1600 / China
• Louisa May Alcott Clears for Action: 1862 / Washington, D.C.
• Do No Harm: 2005 / Afghanistan
• Scraping Bone: c. 219 / Fancheng
• Fee Schedule: c. 1770 BC / Babylon
• Triage: c. 378 BC / Athens
• Home Remedies: c. 1863 / Missouri
• The Senior Practitioner: 1908 / London
• Drooling on Cashmere: 1996 / Berck-sur-Mer

Remedies & Treatments

• Bernard Cooper Connects the Tubes: 2007 / Los Angeles
• End of the Road: 1526 / Basel
• Mastectomy: 1811 / Paris
• George Orwell Hears the Crying of Numero 57: 1929 / Paris
• Avaunt: c. 500 / Persia
• Twilight: c. 810 / China
• Thomas de Quincey Helps Himself: 1804 / London
• Hanging In: 1996 / Boston
• Gift from the Sea: c. 1155 / Bingen
• Cure-All: 1747 / London
• Thucydides Recovers: 430 BC / Athens
• Public Health: 1665 / London
• Call Waiting: 1997 / New York City
• Shock Therapy: 1962 / Oregon
• Civilization and Its Discontents: 1847 / Tennessee
• Joan Didion Counts Her Blessings: 1968 / Los Angeles
• Prescription: c. 208 / Rome
• Seneca Accepts Death: c. 63 / Rome
• Running a Temperature: 1898 / Paris
• Antidotes: c. 850 / Baghdad
• Herbal Remedy: c. 1870 / South Africa
• Oxford: 1663 / Paradigm Shift
• Doris Lessing Attends a Birth: c. 1940 / Zambesia
• Wandering Womb: c. 950 / Europe
• C. S. Lewis Learns the Cold Truth: 1961 / London

Departments

Essays

• Great Expectations: by Noga Arikha
• Early Islamic Medicine: by Jonathan Lyons
• Dissection: by Meehan Crist
• In the Midst of Death: by John Crowley
• Oath of Office: A Conversation Between Richard Selzer & Peter Josyph

Reconsiderations

• The Magic Mountain: Course of Illness: by Iain Bamforth

Conversations

Letters

What If...?

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