Medical progress and social reality : a reader in nineteenth-century medicine and literature / / edited by Lilian R. Furst
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| Titolo: |
Medical progress and social reality : a reader in nineteenth-century medicine and literature / / edited by Lilian R. Furst
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809.3/9356 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medicine |
| Literature and medicine - History - 19th century | |
| Medicine in literature | |
| Altri autori: |
FurstLilian R
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-310) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: From Speculation to Science""; ""Humoral Medicine""; ""Cadavers and Instruments""; ""Germ Theory""; ""Antisepsis, Asepsis, and Anesthesia""; ""Sociological Changes""; ""1. An Introduction to the Ethical Basisof Medical Practice: The Hippocratic Oath and Its Successors""; ""The Hippocratic Oath""; ""The Christian Hippocratic Oath""; ""American Medical Association�s 1847: Code of Ethics"" |
| ""4. Blood-Letting and Septic Surgery: An Introduction to Selections from Gustave Flaubert�s Madame Bovary""""A Broken Leg ""; ""Settling into Practice""; ""A Blood-Letting""; ""Surgery""; ""5. Germs, Drugs, Diagnoses,and Cadavers: An Introduction to Selections fromGeorge Eliot�s Middlemarch""; ""A Conflict of Opinions""; ""The New Hospital""; ""Lydgate�s Ideals""; ""A Case of Typhoid Fever""; ""Dispensing of Drugs""; ""Abdominal Cramps and Pneumonia""; ""Facing the Truth""; ""Gathering Opposition"" | |
| ""6. The Laboratory and Its Products: An Introduction to Selections from Robert Louis Stevenson�s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde""""The Delinquent Mr. Hyde and His Check""; ""Visits to Dr. Jekyll""; ""Crying Out for the Drug""; ""Dr. Jekyll�s Experiments""; ""Dr. Jekyll�s Confession""; ""7. Advances toward More Scientific Practice: An Introduction to Selections from Sinclair Lewis�s Arrowsmith""; ""Doc Vickerson�s Office""; ""Arrowsmith�s Office in Wheatsylvania""; ""How to Obtain Honor and Riches""; ""A Case of Diphtheria""; ""Telephone and Car""; ""Plague"" | |
| ""8. Emergency: An Introduction to Mikhail Bulgakov�s “The Steel Windpipe�""""“The Steel Windpipe�""; ""9. Telling the Truth: An Introduction to Selections from Thomas Mann�s Buddenbrooks""; ""Indigestion""; ""Pneumonia""; ""Stroke""; ""10. A Poor Woman�s Plight: An Introduction to Selections from George Moore�s Esther Waters""; ""Gaining Admission to Hospital""; ""Giving Birth""; ""11. Hands-on Medical Training: An Introduction to Selections from Somerset Maugham�s Of Human Bondage""; ""The Medical Students""; ""The Outpatient Clinic"" | |
| ""12. A Woman Doctor?: An Introduction to Selections from Sarah Orne Jewett�s A Country Doctor"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An anthology of nineteenth-century literature about medicine and medical issues. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Medical progress and social reality |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-9152-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828002203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY Series, The Margins of Literature