Beschreibung:
EOIN O'BRIEN, a professor of medicine and both the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dublin, is author of several highly regarded volumes: among them, The Beckett Country : Samuel Beckett's Ireland; Conscience and Conflict: A Biography of Sir Dominic Corrigan, 1802-1880; The Royal college of Surgeons, 1884-1984; An Illustrated History of Medicine in Ireland.
This is a wide-ranging, amply illustrated selection of essays by one of Dublin's senior medical historians and men of letters.