The Body in Question
Language: English
Published by Horizon Book Promotions, 1978
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- Title
- The Body in Question
- Author
- Jonathan Miller
- Publisher
- Horizon Book Promotions
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394502809
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502809
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Review
The book falls gracefully into eight sections, each dealing with some major aspect of medicine or anatomy. The first, Natural Shocks, concerns itself with the nervous system, the second section analyses the body's ailments, and diagnoses thereof. And so on. All the sections are liberally wreathed with allusion and anecdote: yes, there's plenty of stuff about the spleen and the pancreas-- there's also the surprising info that Mozart wrote tunes for robot pianos, and that a dog with no gullet will drink until it drops.
Anyone seeking practical medical knowledge should not look here; nor should anyone wanting relevant advice on, say, alternative medicine, or psychiatry: Miller's style and subject range is too pointed, choosy, cerebral. But that's also what makes this book so unique, and therefore engaging. --Sean Thomas
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