Iain Bamforth
The Good European
Carcanet Press
2006 PB, 218 pages, £16.95, 1 857547 65 9
Do you ever wonder what you might have done had you not settled for the material and moral comforts of British general practice? Might you, perhaps, have been a doctor in the Australian outback? Or a poet? Or mastered the German philosophers from Kant, Fichte and Hegel to Nietzsche and Heidegger? Or compiled the best collection of literature related to medicine? Or settled in Strasburg and used your fluent multilingualism as translator …