Medical progress and social reality : a reader in nineteenth-century medicine and literature / edited by Lilian R. Furst.

Other author Furst, Lilian R.
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxiv, 314 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSUNY series, the margins of literature
SUNY series, the margins of literature. ^A279137
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-310) and index.
LCCN 00026534
ISBN0791448037 (alk. paper) :
ISBN0791448045 (pbk. : alk paper)

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