John Berger - Ways of Learning

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.

Sommario

• Part One: Beginnings


• 1: Meeting


• 2: Becoming a doctor


• 3: Reading and re-reading


• Part Two: Ideas


• 4: Commonplacing


• 5: This door which opens on to what?


• 6: Looking


• 7: Seeing


• 8: Listening


• 9: Connecting


• 10: Touching


• 11: Thinking


• 12: Words


• 13: Time


• 14: Space and place


• 15: Hope


• 16: Memory


• 17: Imagination


• 18: Pain


• 19: Violence


• 20: Justice and solidarity


• 21: Fear


• 22: Doubt


• 23: Death


• 24: Angels


• Farewell

Info autore

Iona Heath is a retired inner city general practitioner (1975-2010) and past President of the UK Royal College of General Practitioners (2009-2012). She has written regularly for the British Medical Journal and has contributed essays to many other medical journals across the world. She has been particularly interested to explore the nature of general practice, the importance of medical generalism, issues of justice and liberty in relation to health care, the corrosive influence of the medical industrial complex and the commercialization of medicine, and the challenges posed by disease-mongering, the care of the dying, and violence within families.

Riassunto

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.

Testo aggiuntivo

Fascinating ... through excerpts and anecdotes, [Heath] traces the impact Berger had on her development - and offers us the chance to be influenced in our turn.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Iona Heath, Iona (Retired General Practitioner) Heath, Heath Iona
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 12.09.2024
• EAN: 9780192864239
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286423-9
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: My Reading
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Medical Sociology