The Sick Rose
内容简介
A beautifully gruesome and strangely enthralling visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography.
Exquisitely detailed illustrations from some of the world’s rarest medical books form an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankind’s age-old struggle with disease.
This evocative overview, incorporating historic maps, charts, medical instruments and case notes, reveals the fears and preoccupations of an era at the mercy of epidemics, infection and bodily decay.
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作者简介
Richard Barnett is an academic medical historian with a PhD in History of Medicine and is author of 'Medical London' and the 'Dedalus Book of Gin'. He received one of the first Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowships.
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读书文摘
科学医学的野心和前进方向直指一条全新的虚幻之路，尽头是无可避免的死亡；尽管医师和科学家可以在停尸间和实验室质询死亡、将永恒末世转化成生物事实、用宇宙的无限取代宗教的永恒，但他们制作的图像依旧道尽了肉体的脆弱与短暂，凭吊逝去的一切事物。
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