In Between Doctors and Patients, Lillian R. Furst brings together the seemingly incompatible worlds of medicine and literature to illustrate the changing balance of power between doctors and patients since the evolution of modern medicine. Linking popular novels with recent works of medical history, she offers an astute portrait of medicine's emergence from a semi-quack profession to one of the most revered in contemporary society. Furst shows how vividly such novels as Eliot's Middlemarch, Lewis's Arrowsmith, and the stories of Conan Doyle reveal the changing role of doctors from once-modest supplicants to powerul healers.
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Lilian R. Furst, who is Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has written extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.
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THE DOCTOR KNOWS BEST" is a watchword that not only acknowledges and endorses the physician's entitlement to power but also implies the etiquette between doctor and patient that buttresses and validates that power. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
laboratory revolution, graduated physician, true sanctuary, doctor knows best, physician himself, disease specificity, diseased people, medical reform Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Doctor Thorne, Sir Roger, United States, New York, Lady Arabella, The Citadel, Great Britain, Helen Brent, Grace Breen, Nancy Nash, Fred Vincy, Lady Cumnor, The Bostonians, Esther Waters, Nan Prince, Atalanta Zay, Mary Prance, Cathell's Book On the Physician Himself, Charles Rosenberg, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, George Eliot, Lady Scatcherd, Oliver Sacks, Round the Red Lamp, Sir Omnicrom Pie New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
THE DOCTOR KNOWS BEST" is a watchword that not only acknowledges and endorses the physician's entitlement to power but also implies the etiquette between doctor and patient that buttresses and validates that power. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
laboratory revolution, graduated physician, true sanctuary, doctor knows best, physician himself, disease specificity, diseased people, medical reform Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Doctor Thorne, Sir Roger, United States, New York, Lady Arabella, The Citadel, Great Britain, Helen Brent, Grace Breen, Nancy Nash, Fred Vincy, Lady Cumnor, The Bostonians, Esther Waters, Nan Prince, Atalanta Zay, Mary Prance, Cathell's Book On the Physician Himself, Charles Rosenberg, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, George Eliot, Lady Scatcherd, Oliver Sacks, Round the Red Lamp, Sir Omnicrom Pie New!
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- Doctor Thorne (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope on 12 pages
- An Anthropologist on Mars (Spanish Edition) by Oliver Sacks on 7 pages
- The Therapeutic Perspective by John Harley Warner on 7 pages
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- A Country Doctor (Bantam Classic) by Sarah Orne Jewett on 7 pages
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- Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Janis McLarren Caldwell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Professionalism and Ethics in Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Ethan B Russo on page 170
- Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain: Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew by Peter Ghosh on page 221
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