Doctors In Fiction

Author : Erich Segal
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553278118

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Doctors by Erich Segal Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Writing with all the passion of Love Story and power of The Class, Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962. His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors—what makes them tick, scheme, hurt . . . and love. From the crucible of med school’s merciless training through the demanding hours of internship and residency to the triumphs—and sometimes tragedies—beyond, Doctors brings to vivid life the men and women who seek to heal but who must first walk through fire. At the novel’s heart is the unforgettable relationship of Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano, childhood friends who separately find unsettling celebrity and unsatisfying love—until their friendship ripens into passion. Yet even their devotion to each other, even their medical gifts may not be enough to save the one life they treasure above all others. Doctors—heartbreaking, witty, inspiring, and utterly, grippingly real—is a vibrant portrait that culminates in a murder, a trial . . . and a miracle.

Author : Caleb Carr
Publisher : Random House
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588365408

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The Alienist by Caleb Carr Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES • “A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.”—Entertainment Weekly “Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us.”—The Detroit News When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere. The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over. Fast-paced and riveting, infused with historical detail, The Alienist conjures up Gilded Age New York, with its tenements and mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. It is an age in which questioning society’s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and fatal consequences. Praise for The Alienist “[A] delicious premise . . . Its settings and characterizations are much more sophisticated than the run-of-the-mill thrillers that line the shelves in bookstores.”—The Washington Post Book World “Mesmerizing.”—Detroit Free Press “The method of the hunt and the disparate team of hunters lift the tale beyond the level of a good thriller—way beyond. . . . A remarkable combination of historical novel and psychological thriller.”—The Buffalo News “Engrossing.”—Newsweek “Gripping, atmospheric . . . intelligent and entertaining.”—USA Today “A high-spirited, charged-up and unfailingly smart thriller.”—Los Angeles Times “Keeps readers turning pages well past their bedtime.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Borys Surawicz,Beverly Jacobson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781315357867

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Doctors in Fiction by Borys Surawicz,Beverly Jacobson Pdf

Medical practitioners are key actors in many well-known works of fiction and literature, presenting a vital insight into the social, medical, scientific and ethical concerns of their authors and readers. However, medical professionals are often left little time to explore such cultural perceptions of their profession, and by extension themselves, despite the extent to which the views of their patients and society have been - and still are - shaped by them. Doctors in Fiction explores and analyzes representations of medical practitioners in fiction, encompassing classic and contemporary literature, popular fiction, and authors from many nations and traditions. These include among others: Albert Camus A* Anton Checkhov A* Robertson Davies A* Graham Greene A* George Eliot A* Ian McEwan A* F. Scott Fitzgerald A* Jaroroslav Hasek A* Henrik Ibsen A* John Irving A* Patrick O'Brien A* Boris Pasternak A* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn This book will be of interest to those with an interest in the medical humanities, and to students of cultural history and literature. It will also be of particular interest to medical practitioners of all kinds who enjoy literature and wish to understand and reflect upon wider perceptions of their profession.

Author : J. Bogousslavsky,S. Dieguez
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783318022711

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Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film by J. Bogousslavsky,S. Dieguez Pdf

An amazing and fascinating look at neurological conditions in fiction and film Classical and modern literature is full of patients with interesting neurological, cognitive, or psychiatric diseases, often including detailed and accurate descriptions, which suggests the authors were inspired by observations of real people. In many cases these literary portrayals of diseases even predate their formal identification by medical science. Fictional literature encompasses nearly all kinds of disorders affecting the nervous system, with certain favorites such as memory loss and behavioral syndromes. There are even unique observations that cannot be found in scientific and clinical literature because of the lack of appropriate studies. Not only does literature offer a creative and humane look at disorders of the brain and mind, but just as authors have been inspired by medicine and real disorders, clinicians have also gained knowledge from literary depictions of the disorders they encounter in their daily practice. This book provides an amazing and fascinating look at neurological conditions, patients, and doctors in literature and film in a way which is both nostalgic and novel.

Author : Leah Kaminsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307946874

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Writer, M.D. by Leah Kaminsky Pdf

From Chekhov to Maugham to William Carlos Williams, doctors have long given voice to their unique perspectives through literature. Writer, M.D. celebrates this rich tradition with a collection of fiction and nonfiction by today’s most beloved physician-writers, including, • Abraham Verghese, on the lost art of the physical exam • Pauline Chen, on the bond between a med student and her first cadaver • Atul Gawande, on the ethical dilemmas of a young surgical intern • Danielle Ofri, on the devastation of losing a patient • Ethan Canin, on love, poetry, and growing old These essays and stories illuminate the inner lives of men and women who deal with trauma, illness, mortality, and grief on a daily basis. Read together, they provide a candid, moving, one-of-a-kind glimpse behind the doctor’s mask.

Author : Cary Fagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0773761071

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The Doctor's House and Other Fiction by Cary Fagan Pdf

Author : Noah Gordon
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453263747

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The Physician by Noah Gordon Pdf

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this “rich” and “vivid” historical novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (The New York Times). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift—an acute sensitivity to impending death—never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival—medicine—makes a riveting modern classic. The Physician is the first book in New York Times–bestselling author Noah Gordon’s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.

Author : Lucy Ellmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408840825

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Doctors & Nurses by Lucy Ellmann Pdf

By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize 'As lunatic and splenetic and distinctive as anything that will be published this year ... I begin to suspect she may be some sort of genius' Telegraph 'It is somehow hard not to be optimistic in the hands of a writer so angry and intelligent ... Doctors & Nurses is a novel bracingly alive, making more polite books cadaverous by comparison' Guardian The tranquillity of a rural backwater - SHATTERED! The ancient arts of medicine - EXPOSED! Her darling cleft-chinned doctor - FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE! It was a time of wiping. A time of bandaging. Of patients and their incessant needs. In a world where nurses never wash their hands, and doctors are the lowest of the low, one enormous nurse stands up for LOVE - a nurse that will make you fart with fear...

Author : Claire Vernon
Publisher : Chivers North Amer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0792716353

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New Life for the Doctor by Claire Vernon Pdf

Author : Malorie Blackman,Holly Black,Neil Gaiman,Derek Landy,Charlie Higson,Alex Scarrow,Richelle Mead,Patrick Ness,Philip Reeve,Marcus Sedgwick,Michael Scott,Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781405924122

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Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 Stories by Malorie Blackman,Holly Black,Neil Gaiman,Derek Landy,Charlie Higson,Alex Scarrow,Richelle Mead,Patrick Ness,Philip Reeve,Marcus Sedgwick,Michael Scott,Eoin Colfer Pdf

Twelve bestselling authors, twelve Doctors, twelve brilliant adventures in time and space for all Doctor Who fans! This collection features all twelve original Doctor Who eshort stories, covering each of the twelve Doctors and written by a selection of wonderful children's authors.

Author : Naomi Alderman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780241356180

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Doctor Who: Thirteen Doctors 13 Stories by Naomi Alderman Pdf

A new version of this much-loved anthology, with a brand-new story featuring the brand-new Thirteenth Doctor from literary sensation Naomi Alderman! Twelve wonderful tales of adventure, science, magic, monsters and time travel - featuring all twelve Doctors - are waiting for you in this very special Doctor Who book. And now they're joined by a very exciting, and very exclusive, new tale - written by Naomi Alderman, author of The Power - that will star the Thirteenth Doctor, as she battles to save the universe with her three close and trusted friends. Other authors featured are: Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow, Charlie Higson, Derek Landy, Neil Gaiman, and Holly Black.

Author : David Gagnon
Publisher : Piscataqua Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 193973908X

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A Doctor's Dilemma by David Gagnon Pdf

A Doctor's Dilemma is part memoir and social commentary. It is about the life and medical practice of a family doctor in Maine over twenty-five years. It is a fascinating saga with entertainment for health professionals and lay people alike.

Author : Kathryn Montgomery Hunter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691214726

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Doctors' Stories by Kathryn Montgomery Hunter Pdf

A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What becomes of the patient's story when the patient becomes a case? Addressing readers on both sides of the patient-physician encounter, Kathryn Hunter looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story--the patient's story of illness and its symptoms.

Author : Rosa Nouchette Carey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9355112246

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Doctor Luttrell's First Patient by Rosa Nouchette Carey Pdf

Author : Hannah Gardner Creamer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0331967413

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Delia's Doctors by Hannah Gardner Creamer Pdf

Excerpt from Delia's Doctors: Or, a Glance Behind the Scenes You are welcome. We are all as dull as Delia, who has been talking of death, as if that were an idea for young people. Ella, Ella, remonstrated Mrs. Thornton, when will you remember what I have so often told you that the young die as well as the old 2. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.