Scattered Limbs
A Medical Dream-book
ISBN-13: 9781903385951
Contributor(s): Iain Bamforth
Subject: Popular Medicine
Publisher Imprint: Galileo Publishing
Publication Date: 12-09-2020
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£16.99
About the book
Scattered Limbs is a collection of anecdotes, observations and opinions which restores a mythological dimension to the most obvious and yet enigmatic of subjects, the human body. Hunting intellectual minotaurs all the way back to their obscure lairs and labyrinths in pre-Homeric Greece and written over twenty years, its entries range from aphorisms to anecdotes, which in their strangeness and baroque memorability, sometimes resemble Borges' tales of imaginary beings - though the 'imaginary' beings here are often remarkable patients.