Samuel Johnson in the Medical World
John Wiltshire
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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In this 1991 book, John Wiltshire illuminates Johnson's life and work by setting them in their medical context, and also examines the importance of medical themes in Johnson's own writings. He discusses the many parts of Johnson's work touching on doctors, medicines, hospitals and medical experimentation, and analyses the central theme of human suffering and its alleviation.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521022286
- ISBN-10
- 0521022282
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2005
- Publication date
- 2005-12-22
- Pages
- 304
- Dimensions
- 142x218x23
- Weight
- 398