Name: A Fortunate Man
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Jean Mohr

John Berger

The Story of a Country Doctor

A Fortunate Man

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Any general culture acts as a mirror which enables the individual to recognize himself - or at least to recognize those parts of himself which are socially permissible. The culturally deprived have far fewer ways of recognizing themselves. A great deal of their experience - especially emotional and introspective experience - has to remain

unnamed for them. Their chief means of self-expression is consequently through action: this is one of the reasons why the English have so many 'do-it-yourself' hobbies. The garden or the work bench becomes the nearest they have to a means of satisfactory Introspection.

The easiest - and sometimes the only possible - form of conversation is that which concerns or describes action: that is to say action considered as technique or as procedure. It is then not the experience of the speakers which is discussed but the nature of an entirely exterior mechanism or event - a motor-car engine, a football match, a draining system or the workings of some committee. Such subjects, which preclude anything directly personal, supply the content of most of the conversations being carried on by men over twenty-five at any given moment in England today. (In the case of the young, the force of their own appetites saves them from such depersonalization.)

Another meditative masterpiece on witness by John Berger and Jean Mohr. This is the third photojournalist work I've read from Berger and Mohr. I was introduced to Jean Mohr's work via an Edward Said book on the experiences of stateless Palestinians.

While I cant say I am particularly interested in the medical practice as a field of science, I will read any John Berger and enjoyed understanding his analytical, sociological and philosophical thoughts on the role of a doctor in our society. This book is about a doctor working in a rural area in England and sadly I think this style of practice is probably out of date as medicine is now a financial product. My favorite parts in this book was on the roots of intellectual deprivation in society(added a highlight) on this.

Thanks to the good folks on NTS discord who recommended this book. I would gift this to a doctor friend if I had one, its brilliant and sadly out of print.

Another meditative masterpiece on witness by John Berger and Jean Mohr. This is the third photojournalist work I've read from Berger and Mohr. I was introduced to Jean Mohr's work via an Edward Said book on the experiences of stateless Palestinians.

While I cant say I am particularly interested in the medical practice as a field of science, I will read any John Berger and enjoyed understanding his analytical, sociological and philosophical thoughts on the role of a doctor in our society. This book is about a doctor working in a rural area in England and sadly I think this style of practice is probably out of date as medicine is now a financial product. My favorite parts in this book was on the roots of intellectual deprivation in society(added a highlight) on this.

Thanks to the good folks on NTS discord who recommended this book. I would gift this to a doctor friend if I had one, its brilliant and sadly out of print.

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