Literature and medicine: physician-writers

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(97)80120-1

The Lancet

Volume 349, Issue 9051, 22 February 1997, Pages 564-567

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Literature and MedicineLiterature and medicine: physician-writers

First page preview

Lancet

Letter to AS Suvorin, September 11, 1888

This idle trade: on doctors who were writers

A roster of twentieth-century physicians writing in English

Lit Med

Physicians practicing other occupations, especially literature

Mt Sinai J Med

Doctors as men of letters: English and American writers of medical background

Forms of discourse and the sciences of the mind: Luria, Sacks and the role of narrative in neurological case histories

Written Communication

The physician and authority: portraits by four physician-writers

Lit Med

The case of George Dedlow

Phantom limbs and “body-ego”: S Weir Mitchell's “George Dedlow”

Mosaic

Taking the world in for repairs

Introduction

The wisdom of pain: a responsive reading

Lit Med

Chekhov at large

Ward six and other stories

The wisdom of pain in Chekhov's “Ward Number Six”

Lit Med

Letter to GI Rossolimo, October 11, 1899

Letter to AN Pleshcheev, October 4, 1888

Physician-writers: Chekhov, Keats, and Maugham

Pharos

A conversation with John Stone, physician and poet

Midwest Q

Literature and Medicine
Literature and medicine: physician-writers