The Surgeon Evgueni Vasilievich Pavlov in the Operating Theater, by Ilya Repin, 1888. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Medicine

Volume II, Number 4 | fall 2009

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The Travelling Quack, by Tom Merry, 1889.

Preamble

The God in the Machine

By Lewis H. Lapham

Americans ask of medicine more than medicine can deliver—not only the cure for death, but also the gift of riches.

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The Hippocratic Oath in Greek and Latin, 1595.

Oath of Office

By Richard Selzer

A conversation between Richard Selzer & Peter Josyph on the origins of the Hippocratic Oath.

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Map

Contagion

A brief history of malaria, leprosy, and smallpox.

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1862 | Washington, DC

Louisa May Alcott Clears for Action

On tending to the war-wounded.More

c. 1916 | Vienna

Making a Diagnosis

Sigmund Freud provides an introduction to psychoanalysis. More

1610 | Toulouse

Preventative Care

Finding a cure for love.More

Charts & Graphs

What Seems to Be the Problem?

Medical human oddities.

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American writer and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich.

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates.

Surgeon and author Richard Selzer.

black and white pencil drawing of Moliere in an ornate frame

Black and white image of Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.

Classical bust of Thucydides.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

—James Madison, 1794

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Black and white photograph of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud with cigar.

Plato & Sigmund Freud

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