{"product_id":"the-best-medicine-stories-of-healing-9780593318584","title":"The Best Medicine: Stories of Healing","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn inspired anthology about physical and psychological illness, healing, and healers--featuring a brilliant array of classic and contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis unique anthology gathers fictional tales of sickness and of healing, both physical and psychological, from a wide variety of times and perspectives. Some of these writers were themselves physicians, notably Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham, William Carlos Williams, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov's story, taken from \u003ci\u003eA Country Doctor's Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e, draws on his early experience as a young doctor in rural Russia a century ago, while Anna Kavan's story, from her collection \u003ci\u003eAsylum Piece\u003c\/i\u003e, is based on her experience of mental illness. Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, J. G. Ballard, Robert Heinlein, and Lorrie Moore are among the other writers of medical adventures that fill these pages. From Chekhov's \"A Doctor's Visit\" and William Carlos Williams's \"The Paid Nurse\" to Dorothy Parker's \"Lady with a Lamp,\" O. Henry's \"Let Me Feel Your Pulse,\" and Jhumpa Lahiri's \"Interpreter of Maladies,\" the stories gathered here are peopled by a colorful and varied cast of doctors, nurses, and patients. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHEODORE DALRYMPLE is a British cultural critic, prison doctor, and psychiatrist. He has practiced medicine in a number of sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London and in Birmingham. He is a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eCity Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the Manhattan Institute, where he is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow. His work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe British Medical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London), \u003ci\u003eThe Observer, The Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50494541201682,"sku":"9780593318584","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8314da17-0f47-4d34-a872-e22eebedffe1.jpg?v=1730666803","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-best-medicine-stories-of-healing-9780593318584","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}