[This Week's Books] 'The History of Medicine: More Surprising Because It's Ingenious' and Others

The Surprising History of Medicine, Made More Amazing by Its Ingenuity

This book captures the exploits of eccentric doctors who led the brilliant advancements in medicine from ancient times to the modern era. It is based on the BBC documentary of the same name. It introduces a series of groundbreaking events that propelled the development of trauma surgery, cardiac surgery, plastic surgery, transplant surgery, and neurosurgery. Included are stories such as that of the physician Vesalius, who stole the bodies of executed prisoners to study human anatomy, and Pare, who saved soldiers on the battlefield by tying off their blood vessels to stop massive bleeding. (Written by Richard Hollingham / Translated by Seo Jeong-ah / Jisikseoga)

The Generation Born in the 60s Is Coming

This book analyzes those born in the 1960s who are now approaching retirement. The 1960s generation experienced the rapid economic growth and the whirlwind of democratization firsthand. They also lived through a polarized society during the foreign exchange crisis. As a baby boom generation, a staggering 8.6 million people are about to retire. The author, an economic advisor at Mirae Asset Global Investments, states that the 1960s generation, who were the main actors in rapid growth and democratization, will become the leading generation in a super-aged society. They are expected to become the ‘Matcher Generation,’ the last to support their parents and the first not to be supported by their children, wandering the reemployment market. (Written by Kim Kyung-rok / Viabook)

See You in August

This is a posthumous novel by Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. It was published simultaneously worldwide on the 10th anniversary of the author’s death on the 6th of this month. The protagonist is Ana Magdalena Bach, a middle-aged woman who travels every year on August 16, the anniversary of her mother’s death, to an island in the Caribbean Sea. Bach, an ordinary housewife, becomes a free woman for just one day and meets the man of the year on the Caribbean island. The prologue included in the book was written by Marquez’s two sons. (Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Translated by Song Byung-seon / Minumsa)

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