Author: Dylan ThomasPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202060
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
For contents, see Author Catalog.
The Doctor and the Devils, and Other Scripts
Author: Dylan ThomasPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202060
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
For contents, see Author Catalog.
The Devil's Doctor
Author: Philip BallPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142992182X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
“A vibrant, original portrait of a man of contradictions,” the Renaissance-era Swiss father of modern medicine (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus, stands at the cusp of medieval and modern times. A contemporary of Luther, an enemy of the medical establishment, a scourge of the universities, an alchemist, an army surgeon, and a radical theologian, he attracted myths even before he died. His fantastic journeys across Europe and beyond were said to be made on a magical white horse, and he was rumored to carry the elixir of life in the pommel of his great broadsword. His name was linked with Faust, who bargained with the devil. Who was the man behind these stories? Some have accused him of being a charlatan, a windbag who filled his books with wild speculations and invented words. Others claim him to be the father of modern medicine. Philip Ball exposes a more complex truth in The Devil’s Doctor—one that emerges only by entering Paracelsus’s time. He explores the intellectual, political, and religious undercurrents of the sixteenth century and looks at how doctors really practiced, at how people traveled, and at how wars were fought. For Paracelsus was a product of an age of change and strife, of renaissance and reformation. And yet by uniting the diverse disciplines of medicine, biology, and alchemy, he assisted, almost despite himself, in the birth of science and the emergence of the age of rationalism. Praise for The Devil’s Doctor “An enlivening portrait that will spark interest in [Paracelsus’s] role in the rise of science.” —Booklist “A true iconoclast, [Paraclesus] inhabited an ideological landscape somewhere between the medieval and the modern. Ball effectively places Paracelsus in the larger context of Renaissance magic and philosophy, and of a turbulent period. . . . Worth the effort.” —Kirkus Reviews
The Doctor and the Devils
Author: Dylan ThomasThe Doctor and the Devil, Or, Midnight Adventures of Dr. Parkhurst
Author: Charles W. GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Devil's Historians
Author: Amy S. KaufmanPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487587848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The Devil's Historians offers a passionate corrective to common - and very dangerous - myths about the medieval world.
The Devil's Doctors
Author: Mark FeltonPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783032626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The author of Guarding Hitler delivers “a study revealing the Japanese use of Allied POWs in medical experiments during WWII.”—The Guardian The brutal Japanese treatment of Allied POWs in WW2 has been well documented. The experiences of British, Australian and American POWs on the Burma Railway, in the mines of Formosa and in camps across the Far East, were bad enough. But the mistreatment of those used as guinea pigs in medical experiments was in a different league. The author reveals distressing evidence of Unit 731 experiments involving US prisoners and the use of British as control groups in Northern China, Hainau Island, New Guinea and in Japan. These resulted in loss of life and extreme suffering. Perhaps equally shocking is the documentary evidence of British Government use of the results of these experiments at Porton Down in the Cold War era in concert with the US who had captured Unit 731 scientists and protected them from war crime prosecution in return for their cooperation. The author’s in-depth research reveals that, not surprisingly, archives have been combed of much incriminating material but enough remains to paint a thoroughly disturbing story. “The narrative does not seek sensation or attempt to draw irrefutable conclusions where it is clearly impossible to do so, instead it simply provides a balanced assessment of what is known and what seems probable.”—Pegasus Archive
Doctor Who and the Sea-devils
Author: Malcolm HulkePublisher: W H Allen
ISBN: 9780491029544
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
The Doctor and the Devils
Author: Dylan ThomasAdventures in the Skin Trade
Author: Dylan ThomasPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Thomas's unfinished novel of a Welsh boy's adventures in London is accompanied by twenty short stories.
Devils, Drugs, and Doctors
Author: Howard Wilcox HaggardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description