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

1914 | Lambaréné

Swarmed by Mosquitoes

Albert Schweitzer confronts sleeping sickness.More

1889 | London

Collecting Symptoms

Jerome K. Jerome gives a self-diagnosis.More

Charts & Graphs

The Pfizer Circle of Hell

Symptoms and solutions and symptoms…

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Meehan Crist

American poet William Carlos Williams.

Image of Chinese poet Bai Juyi.

American writer and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich.

Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician Moses Maimonides.

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

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

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

Plato & Sigmund Freud

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