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Book club reached new organisational heights for this classic text,1 with an appropriately ambitious format. How would the book group discussion work in front of a large lecture theatre filled by members of Cardiff Medical Society (established 1851), with the author beamed in from New York and projected onto a big screen (see figure 1)? Would the group, more used to a kitchen table discussion, be rendered mute by the situation? Would the readers engage sufficiently with such a familiar book at, for some, a second or third reading? (figure …
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