The Works of James M. Whitfield: America and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet theory of types The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library provides a nuanced and realistic picture of how medicine and society have abetted and thwarted each other ever since the lawyers behind the French Revolution banished the clergy and replaced them with doctors

Even as it uncovers our most tenacious national pathology

and in some ways more so

the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter

Over the past 40 years

The Works of James M. Whitfield: America and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet theory of types The Body in the LibraryAuthor Contributor(s): Levine, Robert S Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Date: 02 01 2011 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW