Medicynical Cartoons from the Daily Routine in Medicine
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, se
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Medicynical Cartoons from the Daily Routine in Medicine
VOLKER LANGE
Cartoons from the Daily Routine in Medicine
Prof. Dr. med. VOLKER LANGE Schlosspark-Klinik Abteilung Chirurgie Heubnerweg 2 14059 Berlin, Germany Title of the Original German Edition: Mit schwarzem Strich. Cartoons aus dem medizinischen Alltag Volker Lange, Berlin © Steinkopff Verlag, Darmstadt, 2001
ISBN 978-3-7985-1431-7 ISBN 978-3-642-57366-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-57366-8 Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie, detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at . This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm ar in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted on1y under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Steinkopff Verlag. Violations are liabIe for prosecution under the German Copyright Law.
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FOREWORD
Do cartoons that should speak to the observer
themselves without using words require a foreword? Do Volker Lange's characteristic drawings, seen at least once by almost everyone involved with medicine, need description? Does this book render more than a reason to laugh, more than a moment of 'aha'-experience, more than a fleeting instant of self-recognition? Do these cartoons convey more than ideas that may initially appear even absurd or bizarre? Volker Lange has proven in previously published material that he knows how to disclose the perhaps intentionally overlooked parts of the medical profession. Here sideswipes against both physicians' vanity and the weight of the medical industry unmask much more than statements made by medical associations or auditing offices. Filled with warmhearted irony, but also biting sarca
