Fiction & physicians: medicine through the eyes of writers
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Liffey Press
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-218) and index |
Physical Description: | XIII, 233 S. 24 cm |
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adam_text | FICTION amp; PHYSICIANS
Medicine through the Eyes of Writers
Stephen McWilliams
The Liffey Press
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Prologue: The Ghosts of Bewley s Cafe xi
PART ONE: DOCTORS WRITING FICTION
x The Write Prescription for Success 3
Four Types of Writer 4
What Rhyme or Reason to Write? 9
2 Old Medical Masters 16
Rabelais without a Cause 16
The Talented Prognosticator 19
More Flamboyant than Physician 25
The Adventures of Tobias Smollett 28
On the Origin of Charles Darwin 30
3 Nineteenth Century Physician-Writers 34
Torn between Two Loves 34
The Casebook of Oliver Wendell Holmes 39
The Revolutionary Writer 45
The Regaling Researcher 46
The Casebook of Arthur Conan Doyle 49
The Secret Mystery Writer 53
Fin de Siecle 56
v
Fiction i)~ Physicians
4 Twentieth Century Physician-Writers 59
Poets and Psychiatrists 59
Weathered Faces Lined in Pain 65
Poetic and Medical Licences 69
Forfeiting Pound for the Dollar 72
The Tale that Wagged the Dog 76
Approaching the Citadel 81
A Timeline on Michael Cricton 86
5 Twenty-First Century Physician-Writers 90
Will the Real Doctor Sacks Please Stand Up? 90
The Physician-Writer of Kabul 95
Weaving Tense Yarns 98
Summing Up 103
PART TWO: FICTION ABOUT DOCTORS
6 Incompetent and Ambitious Fictional Physicians 109
Sloppy Medicine no
Bovary s Surgical Blunder 115
Mister Frankenstein 118
Dr Jekyll, Dr Lanyon and Mr Hyde 122
A Full Blood Count 130
7 Heroic Fictional Physicians 138
The Real Literary Detectives 138
The Fictional Physician-Writer 141
The Catch 145
A Better Doctor 147
Describing Huntington s Disease 148
A Plague upon Your City 152
vi
Contents
8 Fiction and Infection 154
The Age of Smallpox 154
Syphilis, the Celebrity Bug 160
The Symptoms of Love and Cholera 163
Leprosy in Literature 166
The War against Infection 169
9 Fiction and Paranoia 173
Fear: Fiction or Fact? 173
George, by Bennett! 178
The Darker Side of Love 184
The Paradoxical Mr Ripley 187
10 Fictional Psychiatrists 191
Trusting the Wrong Doctor 191
Tracing the Human Condition 197
The Rise and Fall of a Fictional Psychiatrist 202
Clear with a Hint of Grene 207
Better to Burn Out than Fade Away? 210
References and Bibliography 213
Glossary of Medical Terms 219
Permissions 225
Index 227
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