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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition
by John Berger
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A truly life-changing reading experience, Berger's writing is beautiful in its poetry and humanity, and Mohr's photographs revealing and earthy. One of my favourite books, it does have special resonances for those who have anything to do with the treatment of ill people, or who have been ill themselves. Outstanding book in an exceptionally good body of work by Berger and Mohr.
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"This book is dedicated to John and Betty whom it concerns, and to Philip O'Connor for the letters he wrote to me whilst I was writing it."
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In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unrecognizable to themselves. In the impoverished rural community in which he works, John Sassall tend the maimed, the dying, and the lonely. He is not only the dispenser of cures but the repository of memories. And as Berger and Mohr follow Sassall about his rounds, they produce a book whose careful detail broadens into a meditation on the value we assign a human life. First published thirty years ago, A Fortunate Man remains moving and deeply relevant--no other book has offered such a close and passionate investigation of the roles doctors play in their society.
"In contemporary letters John Berger seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience."--Susan Sontag
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- Title A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
- Author John Berger
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date March 25, 1997
- ISBN 9780679737261 / 067973726X
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.4 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.02 cm)
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Library of Congress subjects Sassall, John, Physicians (General practice) - England -
- Dewey Decimal Code 610.924
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