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John Wiltshire illuminates Johnson's life and work by setting them in their medical context, and also examines the importance of medical themes in Johnson's own writings. He discusses the many parts of Johnson's work touching on doctors, medicines, hospitals and medical experimentation, and analyses the central theme of human suffering - in body and mind - and its alleviation.Wiltshire, John is the author of 'Samuel Johnson in the Medical World The Doctor and the Patient' with ISBN 9780521383264 and ISBN 0521383269.
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