RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 On fiction, art and medicine
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 142
OP 144
DO 10.1136/medhum-2014-010615
VO 40
IS 2
A1 Sarah Moss
YR 2014
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/40/2/142.abstract
AB This is a deliberately eclectic and eccentric meditation on some of the connections between writing fiction, academic research in the history of medicine and the practice of medicine. The essay discusses creativity in research and writing, suggesting comparisons with the instincts of experienced clinicians, and explains the author's interest in women's entry to the medical profession. There is the suggestion of parallels between artists’ models and surgical patients in late 19th century British culture.