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The healing arts. R S Downie, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 (334 pp). ISBN 0 19 263257 4. |
Medicine and the arts have in common a concern for all aspects of people's lives. This delightful anthology celebrates the many ways in which they interact. Robin Downie has mixed together a rich concoction of poems, stories, prose extracts, music, paintings, and drawings which illustrate the fundamental issues of birth, life, and death. In its range of topics, shades of opinion, and moods of sadness and laughter, it will provide a splendid source of pleasure for anyone who is interested in the healing arts - relevant not only to those with a clinical background, but to the general reader as well.
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