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Iain Bamforth

Iain Bamforth, who lives in Strasbourg, is preparing a collection of essays on literature and medicine.

Selected bibliography

  • The Good European: Arguments, Excursions and Disquisitions on the Theme of Europe (2006)
  • A Place in the World: Poems (2005)
  • The Body in the Library: A Literary History of Modern Medicine (editor) (2003)
  • Sons and Pioneers (1992)

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