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Sick: The Poetics of Modern Health Care

January 18, 2018 by Victoria Davis

…And all the while, I kept thinking about that great old Whitman  poem… ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.’I…I don’t know it.Anyway…Well, can you recite it?Pathetically enough, I could. With some encouragement from Walt, Gale continues:When I heard the learn’d astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts […]

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