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A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine
Contributor(s): Wagner, Corinna (Editor), Brown, Andy (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1472513290     ISBN-13: 9781472513298
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE: $47.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Medical | History
Dewey: 821.008
LCCN: 2016296789
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.85 lbs) 560 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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A Body of Work includes poems by writers from the dawn of Enlightenment to the 21st Century and explores changing attitudes to medicine, health and the body. The book is divided into eight thematic sections, each of which includes a chronological range of poetry and excerpts of important historical and contextual medical writing. The sections are:

Body as machine
Nerves, mind, and brain
Consuming
Illness, disease, and disability
Treatment
Hospitals, practitioners, and professionals
Sex, evolution, and reproduction
Ageing and dying

Includes work by such poets as: Dannie Abse, Maya Angelou, Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, John Burnside, Raymond Carver, Lucille Clifton, S. T. Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Mark Doty, T.S. Eliot, Paul Farley, Ann Finch, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ted Hughes, Rudyard Kipling, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Paul Muldoon, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, John Addington Symonds, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams.

Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Andy: - Andy Brown is Director of Creative Writing, University of Exeter, UK. A widely published poet and critic, his previous poetry books include Exurbia (2014), The Fool and the Physician (2012) and Goose Music (with John Burnside, 2008) and, as editor, The Writing Occurs As Song: a Kelvin Corcoran Reader (2014).Wagner, Corinna: - Corinna Wagner is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Exeter, UK. She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism and author of Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Political Culture in the Age of Revolution.
 
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