BookSeymour I. Schwartz.
Summary: "An eminent surgeon, who has written books on the history of medicine and cartography, profiles physicians past and present who have also published works in the humanities. Throughout history doctors have felt the need to express themselves in prose and poetry, often on subjects far removed from their medical interests. Renowned surgeon Seymour I. Schwartz felt this same compulsion to write and eventually decided to investigate other authors with a background in medicine. The result is this informative and entertaining compilation of biographical profiles spanning the Middle Ages to the present era. In many cases, literary fame has eclipsed memory of these authors' medical expertise: Most people today talk about Maimonides, Rabelais, Locke, Schiller, Keats, Conan Doyle, and Chekhov because of their literary works, not because they practiced medicine. But the lesser-known individuals are just as interesting in many ways: such people as Cadwallader Colden, the loyalist lieutenant governor of New York during the American Revolution, who wrote the first English history of the Iroquois; Margaret Georgina Todd, author of popular novels in the Victorian era, which promoted the idea of women in medicine; and Rudolph John Chauncey Fisher, who was not only a physician, researcher, and radiologist, but played a role in the Harlem Renaissance as an orator, musician, musical arranger, and literary figure. Concluding with profiles of contemporary doctors who are also respected authors, this diverse collection shows that, despite increasing specialization, medicine and the humanities continue to complement each other to enrich our lives"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Part I The Past
1 A Beacon in a Dark Age p. 17 / Maimonides
2 Health and Humanism p. 24 / Thomas Linacre
3 Mirth as Medicine p. 29 / François Rabelais
4 Potions and Prognostications p. 33 / Michel de Nostredame
5 Favorite of the Future p. 38 / Sir Thomas Browne
6 Premier Physician/Philosopher during the Enlightenment in England p. 46 / John Locke
7 Epistles and Exaggerated Expertise p. 53 / Cadwallader Colden
8 Prodigy, Physiologist, Physician, Poetry, and Prose p. 59 / Albrecht von Haller
9 Picaresque Primacy p. 65 / Tobias George Smollett
10 A Questionable Inclusion p. 70 / Oliver Goldsmith
11 A Grand Grandfather-Progenitor of the Man and His "Ism" p. 75 / Erasmus Darwin
12 Part Medicine, Part Ministry, but Persistent Poetry p. 82 / George Crabbe
13 Literary Largess of an AWOL Regimental Doctor p. 88 / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
14 A Bard Who Shed the Bard Parker p. 95 / John Keats
15 From Surgery at Sea to Successful Serials p. 100 / Marie-Joseph Eugène Sue
16 Fiction Focuses on the Irish from Afar p. 104 / Charles James Lever
17 A Most Successful Combination p. 110 / Oliver Wendell Holmes
18 Neurology and Nineteen Novels p. 117 / Silas Weir Mitchell
19 The Lone Laureate p. 124 / Robert Seymour Bridges
20 A Precedent from a Peerless Physician p. 130 / Sir William Osler
21 Extraordinary Edwardian with an Elephantine Association p. 139 / Sir Frederick Treves
22 Female Physician Fosters Medical Feminism in Fiction p. 145 / Arabella Madonna Kenealy
23 Contemporary Champion of Common Cause p. 149 / Margaret Georgina Todd
24 A Modicum of Medicine-a Mass of Manuscripts p. 152 / Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
25 Fusion of Fiction and Medicine p. 161 / Anton Chekhov
26 Perceived to he Pornography p. 169 / Arthur Schnitzler
27 Scientifically Superior to Sherlock p. 174 / R. Austin Freeman
28 Honors Galore-a Pulitzer Prize and More p. 180 / Harvey Williams Cushing
29 Maintaining Medical Status while Producing Profitable Prose p. 186 / William Somerset Maugham
30 Surgeon, Soldier, Author, and Publisher p. 193 / James Johnston Abraham
31 A Diverse and Demonstrative Dubliner p. 197 / Oliver St. John Gogarty
32 Keynesian Contributions to Surgery and Literature p. 204 / Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes
33 Passionate about Poetry while Persistently Providing Medical Care p. 210 / William Carlos Williams
34 Closure of the Locks for Medicine Opened the Floodgates for Literature p. 217 / Francis Brett Young
35 The Renaissance Man of the Harlem Renaissance p. 223 / Rudolph John Chauncey Fisher
36 Prohibition from Print Transforms into Posthumous Adulation p. 228 / Mikhail Bulgakov
37 Profitable Prose with Social Consequence p. 234 / Archibald Joseph Cronin
38 Respected Psychiatrist and Persistent Poet p. 240 / Austin Merrill Moore
39 Short on Surgery, Long on Literature p. 244 / Frank Gill Slaughter
40 Dual Distinction p. 248 / Lewis Thomas
41 Northern Cure Transforms Career of Southern Writer p. 252 / Walker Percy
42 The Monocle Bespeaks Medical Mirth p. 259 / Gordon Stanley Ostlere (Richard Gordon)
43 The "Doctor Who Found His Forte in Writing" p. 263 / John Benignus Lyons
44 Georgia-Georgia p. 267 / Ferrol Aubrey Sams Jr.
45 Surgeon and a Short Story Stylist p. 271 / Richard Selzer
46 From Electricity to Eloquence-Shock Breeds Success p. 275 / Sherwin Bernard Nuland
47 Practice Medicine to Increase Personal Survival of Gulag Incarceration! p. 280 / Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov
48 Stories Stem from Synaptic Struggles p. 284 / Oliver Wood Sacks
49 Iconic and Not Remembered p. 291 / John Stone III
50 Therapeutic Thrillers p. 295 / Michael Stephen Palmer
51 Uniquely First in Three Media Simultaneously p. 299 / John Michael Crichton
Part II The Present
52 Medical Nobel Laureate Creates Compelling Literature p. 307 / Eric R. Kandel
53 Primacy and Prolificacy in Medical Thrillers p. 312 / Robert Brian "Robin" Cook
54 From Medical Forefronts to the Irish Countryside p. 315 / Patrick Taylor
55 The Rhodes to Irreverence p. 319 / Stephen J. Bergman
56 Completeness Trumps Personal Prejudice p. 324 / Deepak Chopra
57 Productivity and Popularity Surmount Profound Personal Adversity p. 328 / Paul Carson
58 Widely Read and Highly Regarded p. 331 / Charles Krauthammer
59 An Exceptional Exemplar p. 334 / Jerome E. Groopman
60 Practicality Trumps Passion, but Passion Perseveres p. 338 / Tess Gerritsen
61 Medical Humanism and Honed Literature p. 341 / Abraham Verghese
62 Indelible Impressions Contribute to Divorce from Medicine p. 345 / Khaled Hosseini
63 Humanities and a Human Voice p. 348 / Danielle Ofri
64 A Mercury for Modern Medicine p. 351 / Atul Gawande
65 Biographer of Biology p. 355 / Siddhartha Mukherjee.
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Books: History - LC Classification (Downstairs)
R690 .S39 2018
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