{"product_id":"9781472513298","title":"Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBody of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCorinna Wagner | Andy Brown\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Body of Work\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Body as machine \u003cbr\u003e  Nerves, mind, and brain\u003cbr\u003e  Consuming \u003cbr\u003e  Illness, disease, and disability \u003cbr\u003e  Treatment \u003cbr\u003e  Hospitals, practitioners, and professionals\u003cbr\u003e  Sex, evolution, and reproduction \u003cbr\u003e  Ageing and dying \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorinna Wagner \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Exeter, UK. She publishes on the history of medicine and visual culture, and is author of \u003ci\u003ePathological Bodies: Medicine and Political Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2013) and co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eOxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Andy Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, UK. A widely published poet, novelist and critic, his books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eExurbia\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eThe Fool and the Physician \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) and \u003ci\u003eGoose Music\u003c\/i\u003e (with John Burnside, 2008). His first novel is \u003ci\u003eApples \u0026amp; Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25 February 2016\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781472513298\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e560\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27.36\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331620241548,"sku":"9781472513298","price":46.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_c1647fd2-ba54-4069-b4c2-f83099cddf44.jpg?v=1783597894","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781472513298","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}