Ep 13: Doctors and Patients
Episode 13 of the Bookasur podcast, hosted by P.S. Nissim, titled "Ep 13: Doctors and Patients" was published on July 15, 2020 and runs 24 minutes.
July 15, 2020 ·24m · Bookasur
Summary
These days, we’re all thinking about sickness and pandemics - but these have been around for a long time in various forms. With them, have been men and women dedicated to healing, as well as unexpectedly human stories of extraordinary courage. Today, we talk about a new translated book about three generations of doctors, and then a classic book that speaks of the breakdown of civilisation due to a pandemic. This is episode #13 of Bookasur, talking about mist rising like chloroform, the Spanish Flu, a pretended blindness, and success in your sixties. Books featured: A Ballad of Remittent Fever, by Ashoke Mukhopadhyay, translated by Arunava Sinha, published by Aleph. Blindness, by Jose Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero, published by Vintage Classics. -------- Published 15th July 2020. Find out more about Bookasur here: https://www.psnissim.com/p/bookasur.html P.S. Nissim tweets at: https://twitter.com/ps_nissim Title Music: Jazz In Paris by Media Right Productions used under Creative Commons
Episode Description
These days, we’re all thinking about sickness and pandemics - but these have been around for a long time in various forms. With them, have been men and women dedicated to healing, as well as unexpectedly human stories of extraordinary courage. Today, we talk about a new translated book about three generations of doctors, and then a classic book that speaks of the breakdown of civilisation due to a pandemic.
This is episode #13 of Bookasur, talking about mist rising like chloroform, the Spanish Flu, a pretended blindness, and success in your sixties.
Books featured:
A Ballad of Remittent Fever, by Ashoke Mukhopadhyay, translated by Arunava Sinha, published by Aleph.
Blindness, by Jose Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero, published by Vintage Classics.
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Published 15th July 2020. Find out more about Bookasur here: https://www.psnissim.com/p/bookasur.html
P.S. Nissim tweets at: https://twitter.com/ps_nissim
Title Music: Jazz In Paris by Media Right Productions used under Creative Commons
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