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A sensuous, richly nuanced collection of essays for intellectual and emotional survival in this fractious age.

Philosophical and instructive, intermittently funny and sometimes appalling, this anthology sets out to stimulate and entertain. With a contextual preface to each account, it will educate both patients and doctors curious to know more about the historical dimensions of medical practice.

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Iain Bamforth's third collection applies carnival licence to various kinds of histories - personal, symbolic, ethnographic, social - even to a history of representations in the 101 epigrams and "autographemes" which make up the Paris sequence "Impediments".

Written under the sign of Eros, builder and destroyer of cities, and prefaced by an epigraph from John Keats, these poems reflect home and antipodes, the critical spirit, and the need for continuity. Departing from Scotland with a battered copy of the civil philosophy that lends the book its punning title, the poet sets off for Europe. Once immersed in the old civilization he, like the Greek philosopher he seeks to emulate, finds himself in th...

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Reimagining myth, history, and literature, this compilation draws upon the poet's remarkable travels and experiences as a doctor while working in some of the most remote parts of the world. As it brings Rimbaud, Dante, and 17th-century picaresque into play, this compilation explores the ultimate journey of crossing into another world or another life.

Essays on the relationship between art and medicine by a doctor and poet.

Nietzsche, warning his countrymen in the Bismarck era against the nationalism that sought to promote all that was anti-rational in the German tradition, exhorted them to be 'good Europeans', avatars of the enlightened economic man of the eighteenth-century. Yet as RG Collingwood observed in his last great inquiry into the nature of civilisation, a book written to the glory of Hobbes at the height of the London blitz, Nietzsche was himself a vi...