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 Garden of Death, by Hugo Simberg, 1896.

In the Midst of Death

By John Crowley

If the universe can’t outlive or transcend individual consciousness, does death even really exist?

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Map

Contagion

A brief history of malaria, leprosy, and smallpox.

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c. 1905 | Mohalis

Feng Shui

Sinclair Lewis on the fine art of furnishing a doctor’s office.More

1847 | Philadelphia

Gaining Admission

Elizabeth Blackwell changes the face of medicine.More

c. 1760 | Michigan

White-Man Giver

Native Americans encounter a terrible sickness.More

Charts & Graphs

Cost Breakdown

Pharmaceutical industry facts and figures.

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

Black and white photograph of British writer Doris Lessing.

Photograph of American clinical psychologist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison.

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

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Black and white photograph of scholar, novelist, and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis.

American poet William Carlos Williams.

Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

Black and white photograph of Emily Dickinson sitting next to a desk.

American writer William Styron.

Emily Dickinson & William Styron

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