Reviews for Gout: The Patrician Malady

The average rating for Gout: The Patrician Malady based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-08 00:00:00 James Gribble First read Jan 2010. Re-read March 2013.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-09 00:00:00 Lenny Fletcher I had no idea from the outside of this book what it was about. After Chapter 1, I still had no idea. It was not until around Chapter 2 that it started to make sense, and to become an enjoyable read. The author writes about medicine, but he places it within several realms: mythology, history, philosophy, religion, and his own experience, almost as if he were locating it on a dimensional graph. It is easy to think about medicine as being completely scientific, especially with the advent of "evidence-based medicine." I am going to be chewing over the multiple meanings and currents I have found within this book for quite some time.