The Ministry of Bodies

Life and death in a modern hospital, from Seamus O''Mahony, the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now and Can Medicine Be Cured?Seamus O''Mahony charts the realities of work in the ''ministry ...

Life and death in a modern hospital, from Seamus O''Mahony, the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now and Can Medicine Be Cured?Seamus O''Mahony charts the realities of work in the ''ministry of bodies'', that huge complex where people come to be cured and to die. From unexpected deaths to moral quandaries and bureaucratic disasters, O''Mahony documents life in the halls and wards that all of us will visit at some point in our lives with his characteristic wit and dry and unsentimental intelligence.Absurd general emails, vain and self-promoting specialists, the relentless parade of self-d