RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 “You keep telling me what has been lost, and I keep telling you something remains.” A personal response to: Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff JF Medical Humanities JO J Med Humanit FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics SP 105 OP 106 DO 10.1136/mh.28.2.105 VO 28 IS 2 A1 W Lewis YR 2002 UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/28/2/105.abstract AB Michael Ignatieff is well known as a journalist and broadcaster of a distinctly intellectual kind. He has written movingly on the trauma of modern warfare and Europe following the Cold War. His CV also boasts of studies on the Scottish Enlightenment and nineteenth century penal policy. Additionally, his Booker short listed novel Scar Tissue is one of the most interesting studies of medicine and the human consequences of disease of the last decade.