Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid

About this film

LibriVox recording of Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid by Harriet Martineau. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom. Considered ground breaking, it asserted that the sickroom is the sick person's place and not the doctor's. Sick people were able and willing to decide what is best for them. In England and abroad, people declared that "a sick person cannot write a healthy book" and that Harriet Martineau was definitely out of her senses. It would be interesting to see how much has changed. - Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (145MB)

Directors & creators

Harriet Martineau

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;philosophy; autobiography; essays; health

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