| Description |
xiv, 314 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series, the margins of literature
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SUNY series, the margins of literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. An introduction to the ethical basis of medical practice: the hippocratic oath and its successors -- Ch. 2. An old style doctor: an introduction to selections from Anthony Trollope's Dr. Thorne -- Ch. 3. The cult of pathology: an introduction to selections from Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris -- Ch. 4. Blood-letting and septic surgery: an introduction to selections from Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- Ch. 5. Germs, drugs, diagnoses, and cadavers: an introduction to selections from George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Ch. 6. The laboratory and its products: an introduction to selections from Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Ch. 7. Advances toward more scientific practice: an introduction to selections from Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith -- Ch. 8. Emergency! an introduction to Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Steel Windpipe" -- Ch. 9. Telling the truth: an introduction to selections from Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks -- Ch. 10. A poor womans's plight: an introduction to selections from George Moore's Esther Waters -- Ch. 11. Hands-on medical training: an introduction to selections from Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage -- Ch. 12. A woman doctor? an introduction to selections from Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor -- Ch. 13. A shocking discovery! an introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Doctors of Hoyland" -- Ch. 14. Starting up in practice: an introduction to selections from Daniel W. Cathell's Book on the Physician Himself. |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Literary collections.
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Medicine. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Furst, Lilian R.
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| ISBN |
0791448045 paperback alk paper |
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0791448037 alkaline paper |
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