Cosimo-Paraview author Cecil Helman has won the 2007 Book Award from the Medical Journalists’ Association for his work Suburban Shaman: Tales from Medicine’s Frontier (published by Hammersmith Press). It had previously been BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week.

Helman’s Cosimo-Paraview title The Body of Frankenstein’s Monster: Essays in Myth and Medicine is a collection of essays that Publishers Weekly called “a strong antidote to modern medicine’s tendency to treat the body as a machine.” Helman — a physician, anthropologist, and folklorist — explores medicine’s connections to myth, magic, and metaphor through discussions of the placebo effect, the concept of transplant surgery, the diagnostic technology of the X-ray, and other medical matters.

Suburban Shaman and The Body of Frankenstein’s Monster are available from Amazon and other online booksellers.

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