Seeing medicine through opera glasses
Roger Burford Mason
Canadian Medical Association Journal 1996; 154: 921-923
Roger Burford Mason is a freelance writer living in Toronto.
Abstract
Few opera buffs stop to consider how the illnesses suffered by opera's great heros and heroines mirrored the medical treatments and public attitudes of their time. A Toronto physician and his wife, an English professor and literary critic, have written a book exploring how opera presents illnesses such as tuberculosis and syphilis.
| CMAJ March 15, 1996 (vol 154, no 6) |