# The Body in the Library

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- Authors: [Iain Bamforth](https://www.bookquiver.com/iain-bamforth), [Wystan Hugh Auden](https://www.bookquiver.com/wystan-hugh-auden), [Peter Bamm](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-bamm), [Sam Beck](https://www.bookquiver.com/samuel-beckett), [Gottfried Benn](https://www.bookquiver.com/gottfried-benn)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-17-8168-628-7
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2015-03-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...