Doctors in Fiction: Lessons from Literature

✍ Scribed by Borys Surawicz, Beverly Jacobson

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Contents
Preface
About the authors
Part One: Early Docs
Chapter 1: Dr. Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar in Mistress of the Art of Death
Chapter 2: Dr. Stephen Maturin in The Aubrey-Maturin Chronicles
Chapter 3: Dr. Tertius Lydgate in Middlemarch
Part Two: Idealistic Doctors
Chapter 4: Dr. Martin Arrowsmith in Arrowsmith
Chapter 5: Dr. Andrew Manson in The Citadel
Chapter 6: Dr. Lucas Marsh in Not as a Stranger
Chapter 7: Cancer Ward
Chapter 8: Doctors on the island of Capri
Chapter 9: Dr. Bernard Rieux in The Plague
Part Three: Destroyed Careers. Chapter 10: Dr. Antoine Thibault in Les ThibaultChapter 11: Dr. Ravic in Arch of Triumph
Chapter 12: Dr. Yuri Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago
Part Four: Novel Psychiatrists
Chapter 13: Dr. Dick Diver in Tender is the Night
Chapter 14: Dr. Howard Berger in Ordinary People
Chapter 15: Dr. Johanna Von Haller in The Manticore
Chapter 16: Dr. Jonathan Hullah in The Cunning Man
Part Five: Dispirited Doctors
Chapter 17: Ward No. 6 and Other Stories
Chapter 18: Physicians in the world of Graham Greene
Part Six: Abortion. Chapter 19: Drs. Wilbur Larch and Homer Wells (alias Dr. Fuzzy Stone) in The Cider House RulesChapter 20: Dr. Henry Wilbourne in The Wild Palms
Part Seven: Satirized Doctors
Chapter 21: Satire from the 17th to the 20th century
Part Eight: Doctors in Dramas
Chapter 22: Doctors in the plays Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and the Three Sisters
Chapter 23: Dr. Thomas Stockman in An Enemy of the People
Part Nine: Contemporary Doctors
Chapter 24: Dr. Benjamin Rubin in Open Heart
Chapter 25: Dr. Henry Perowne in Saturday
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✦ Subjects

Physicians in literature.;Literature and medicine.