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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Valentine Godé-Darel in a Hospital Bed, by Ferdinand Hodler, 1914.

Course of Illness

By Iain Bamforth

Reconsidering an epic of illness—Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

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Map

Contagion

A brief history of malaria, leprosy, and smallpox.

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1554 | Montpellier

Body Snatchers

Bringing out the dead in medieval France.More

c. 378 BC | Athens

Triage

To the healthy goes the medical treatment.More

1847 | Tennessee

Civilization and Its Discontents

Dorothea Dix pleads for the creation of a new institution.More

Charts & Graphs

What Seems to Be the Problem?

Medical human oddities.

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Photograph of Soviet playwright and writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

Meehan Crist

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

Painting of humanist and scholar Erasmus.

Image of Chinese poet Bai Juyi.

Depiction of German abbess and mystic St. Hildegard.

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

Missing contributor image silhouette

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

Mimnermus & Montaigne

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