1st Edition

Medicine and Literature, Volume Two The Doctor's Companion to the Classics

By John Salinsky Copyright 2004
296 Pages
by CRC Press

296 Pages
by CRC Press

‘When I want to know the real rock-bottom truth about what happens all the time in this doctoring life, what happens to us, and to the folks who bring us their hearts and worries to be heard, that’s when I turn, every time, to the novelists, the playwrights, the poets, the essayists, who have given us the sights and sounds, the feel, of all that goes on, minute by minute. What Tolstoy and Chekhov... Read more
Introduction. As you like it. Emma. Frankenstein. Jane Eyre. Moby-Dick. Fathers and sons. Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Heart of Darkness. Metamorphosis, The Burrow and Josephine the singer. Women in love. A passage to India. Mrs Dalloway. Decline and fall. One hundred years of solitude.

Biography

John Salinsky