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Medicynical

Cartoons from the Daily Routine in Medicine

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Volker Lange

    1. Abteilung Chirurgie, Schlosspark-Klinik, Berlin, Germany

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. General Medicine

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 1-8

  3. Anesthesiology

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 9-13

  4. Surgery

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 15-29

  5. Minimal Invasive Surgery

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 31-47

  6. Dermatology

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 49-55

  7. Endoscopy

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 57-95

  8. Ent

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 97-102

  9. Internal Medicine

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 103-114

  10. Neurosurgery

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 115-125

  11. Neurology

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 127-128

  12. Emergency Medicine

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 129-133

  13. Ophthalmology

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 134-140

  14. Plastic Surgery

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 141-144

  15. Proctology

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 145-157

  16. Psychiatry

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 158-166

  17. Radiology

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 167-173

  18. Sexual Medicine

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 175-180

  19. Traumatology

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 181-188

  20. Urology

    • Volker Lange
    Pages 189-193
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About this book

Do cartoons that should speak to the observer flexible endoscope becomes a snake, 'Nessie' swims in themselves without using words require a foreword? the disinfection basin, and Laokoon and sons fight against Do Volker Lange's characteristic drawings, seen at least an endoscope. Seen from Lange's perspective, concepts once by almost everyone involved with medicine, need such as the drawer phenomenon, an onychomycosis, description? and the appendix appear in unique, new light. Does this book render more than a reason to laugh, Lange's cartoons depict the grotesque, the mysterious, more than a moment of 'aha'-experience, more than a and the fantastic: patient and physician drowning in fleeting instant of self-recognition? Do these cartoons liquor during lumbal puncture, a patient actually convey more than ideas that may initially appear even coughing out his lungs, and a neurosurgeon, who finds absurd or bizarre? emptiness when changing his patient's dressings, these Volker Lange has proven in previously published are moments of enlightenment that free us from the bonds material that he knows how to disclose the perhaps of a strictly scientific medicine fixed upon reality. Lange's intentionally overlooked parts of the medical profession. book is a treasure chest of such surrealistic surprises. Here sideswipes against both physicians' vanity and the With a few exceptions, Lange reveals his ideas using weight of the medical industry unmask much more than graphic expression only.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Abteilung Chirurgie, Schlosspark-Klinik, Berlin, Germany

    Volker Lange

About the author

 Professor Lange is the head physician for the Surgery Department, Schlosspark Clinic, Berlin, Medical School Hospital of the Charité, who became known as a cartoonist for his numerous caricatures in various medical journals (e.g., Deutsches Arzteblatt), his books and calendars.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Medicynical

  • Book Subtitle: Cartoons from the Daily Routine in Medicine

  • Authors: Volker Lange

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57366-8

  • Publisher: Steinkopff Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7985-1431-7Published: 31 July 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-57366-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 206

  • Number of Illustrations: 175 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Medicine/Public Health, general

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