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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1747 | London

Cure-All

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

2650 BC | China

Yin and Yang

Achieving harmony in nature and the body.More

c. 378 BC | Athens

Triage

To the healthy goes the medical treatment.More

Charts & Graphs

Cost Breakdown

Pharmaceutical industry facts and figures.

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Photograph of English poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling.

English art historian, novelist and journalist Iain Pears.

Founder of the Macrobiotic diet and philosophy George Ohsawa.

Oil painting portrair Michel de Montaigne in red robes and white collar

Black and white photograph of American writer and critic Anatole Broyard.

Color portrait of English poet John Donne.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

—Francis Bacon, 1605

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

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

Plato & Sigmund Freud

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