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The guillotine, that high-tech tool of the Jacobin Terror, was ironically the invention of a progressive Paris physician, Dr Joseph Guillotin
Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
From the description: Contrary to the assumptions of mainstream medicine, he asserts that most human ailments are not individual problems, but reflections of a person's relationship with the physical, emotional and social environment, from conception to death. Mind and body are not separate in real life, and thus health and illness in a person refl... See more
Gabor Mate • Dr. Gabor Maté - Toxic Culture | Bioneers
A doctor causing the death of a slave would have to replace him.
Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
(1738–1814), whose praise of its humanity (it was fast and foolproof) illustrates the Revolution’s chilling blend of idealism and inhumanity.
Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Soon psychopathology replaced ethnicity as the critical demographic determinant.
Mark Leyner • My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud.
Irvin D. Yalom • When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
The physician spoke with confidence. He was a man, after all. He had no reason to think he would not be believed.