A biography of disease--The BLP Pathography series debuts with a fascinating, multi-dimensional deconstruction of

Propylaeum
Preface: Anemia

I. SYMPTOMS / I FEEL SICK
1. Diseasification
2. Pallor
3. The Malice Sickle

II. DIAGNOSIS / WHAT?S WRONG
4. The Green Sicknesse
5. Anemia?s Old Tale
6. What the Doctor Is Thinking
7. Diagnostic Ceremonies

III. ANEMIC KNOWING
8. Spleen
9. Marrow
10. Diseases of the Blood
11. Anemia World

IV. TREATMENT / WHAT WOULD THEY DO TO ME
12. Iron
13. Bloodletting
14. Transfusion
15. Is Anemia Good for You?
16. The Blood of Medusa

V. MYTHOS / STORY
17. The Birth of Clinical Tragedy
18. Why Again Greeks?

POSTSCRIPT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES AND REFERENCES
INDEX

Charles Bardes, MD is a practicing physician, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Associate Dean at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He has published numerous articles which probe the cultural artifacts of medicine. Along with writings on clinical medical practice he pursues the multiple linkages between aesthetic experience, literature and history to medical procedure and its curious evolution.