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 Doctor, by Friedrich Friedländer, 1870.

Great Expectations

By Noga Arikha

Medicine was once a humanistic endeavor, an art as well as a science. Today both doctors and patients fail to see that we are more than just our bodies.

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Map

Contagion

A brief history of malaria, leprosy, and smallpox.

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1610 | Toulouse

Preventative Care

Finding a cure for love.More

1889 | London

Collecting Symptoms

Jerome K. Jerome gives a self-diagnosis.More

1747 | London

Cure-All

John Wesley throws some cold water on, well, everything.More

Charts & Graphs

Field Research

Advances in modern medicine during wartime.

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Color photograph of Oliver Sacks with a white beard and glasses.

Italian poet and librettist Felice Romani.

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

Photograph of American clinical psychologist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison.

Surgeon and author Richard Selzer.

Painting of humanist and scholar Erasmus.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

—Sigmund Freud, 1912

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

American writer William Styron.

Emily Dickinson & William Styron

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