Medicine, Art & Literature
Medicine is a well-known theme in famous pieces of art and literature, the relationship between them is evident in the power of expression intelligently used to reveal and record information about many types of diseases and its cure.
Robert Briffault
Birth - Death : 1876-1948
Country : England
Medical School : University of Dunedin in New Zealand a
Background : anthropologist,surgeon and a novelist.
Awards : Military Cross for conspicuous bravery during his First World War service
Fiction : Europa: a novel of the days of ignorance (1935) Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Europa in Limbo (1937)
The Ambassadress (1939)
Fandango (1940)
New Life of Mr. Martin (1947)
Non - Fiction : The Making of Humanity (1919)
Psyche's Lamp: a re-evaluation of psychological principles as a foundation of all thought (1921)
The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions (1927)
Rational Evolution (1930)
Sin and Sex (1931)
Breakdown: The Collapse of Traditional Civilization (1932)
Reasons for Anger: selected essays (1937)
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (1938)
Marriage Past and Present (1956) edited radio debate between Briffault and Bronislaw Malinowski, originall published as a series in The Listener
Les Troubadours et le sentiment romanesque (1945) (in French)
The Troubadours (1965) (revised translation of the above)
