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The Doctor's Dilemma Play Paperback Book by Bernard Shaw from Penguin Books 1980
"I do not know a single thoughtful and well-informed person who does not feel that the tragedy of illness at present is that it delivers you helplessly into the hands of a profession which you deeply mistrust."
Thus Bernard Shaw launches his long and brilliant Preface to The Doctor's Dilemma. Shaw often vented his own deep mistrust of doctors, but never more masterfully. than in this play.
As an attack on the medical profession, the play is pointed but not caustic, and it sparkles throughout with an abundance of Shavian wit.
Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856 and died at Ayot St. Lawrence, England, in 1950.
He made his early reputation as a journalist-critic of books, art, music, and drama.
A leader of the famed Fabian Society, he figured prominently not only as a pamphleteer and platform orator but also as a serious economist and philosopher.
In 1892 he turned to writing plays, but it was not until some twelve years later that the opposition he had always to face at first was overcome sufficiently to establish him as an irresistible force in the theater and eventually as one of the greatest dramatists of all time.
Book is in good condition. General shelf and corner wear. A few white marks on the front and back cover. Some fraying along the cover the edges. A solid reading copy. Please see photos for details, and let me know if you have any questions. Shipping and Return Details
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