Book Description
This is a structured, annotated and indexed anthology dealing with the personality and the behaviour of doctors, and doctor-patient relationships - ideal for medical humanities courses.
Author : Solomon Posen
Publisher : Radcliffe Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Medicine in literature
ISBN : 9781857757798
This is a structured, annotated and indexed anthology dealing with the personality and the behaviour of doctors, and doctor-patient relationships - ideal for medical humanities courses.
Author : Solomon Posen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 131534498X
Focusing on the personal lives of doctors, this annotated indexed anthology explores personality, behavior and doctor-patient relationships as portrayed in novels, short stories and plays. The Doctor in Literature, Volume 2 and its companion volume are unique among medical anthologies in that readers can look up medical topics as they appear in fiction. The choice of passages is based on clinical relevance, and the range of fully indexed subjects and quotations are generally not found in other texts. This work brings together an extraordinary array of passages from literature to provide a major reference source. It identifies and analyses recurring themes in the portrayal of medical doctors, and is sure to provide pleasure for readers who use it for browsing. Key reviews from The Doctor in Literature: satisfaction or resentment?
Author : Li Zhi-Sui
Publisher : Random House
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307791394
“The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”—Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in daily—and increasingly intimate—contact with Mao and his inner circle. in The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Dr. Li vividly reconstructs his extraordinary experience at the center of Mao's decadent imperial court. Dr. Li clarifies numerous long-standing puzzles, such as the true nature of Mao's feelings toward the United States and the Soviet Union. He describes Mao's deliberate rudeness toward Khrushchev and reveals the actual catalyst of Nixon's historic visit. Here are also surprising details of Mao's personal depravity (we see him dependent on barbiturates and refusing to wash, dress, or brush his teeth) and the sexual politics of his court. To millions of Chinese, Mao was more god than man, but for Dr. Li, he was all too human. Dr. Li's intimate account of this lecherous, paranoid tyrant, callously indifferent to the suffering of his people, will forever alter our view of Chairman Mao and of China under his rule. Praise for The Private Life of Chairman Mao “From now one no one will be able to pretend to understand Chairman Mao's place in history without reference to this revealing account.”—Professor Lucian Pye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Dr. Li does for Mao what the physician Lord Moran's memoir did for Winston Churchill—turns him into a human being. Here is Mao unveiled: eccentric, demanding, suspicious, unregretful, lascivious, and unfailingly fascinating. Our view of Mao will never be the same again.”—Ross Terrill, author of China in Our Time “An extraordinarily intimate portrait of Mao. [Dr. Li] portrays [Mao's imperial court] as a place of boundless decadence, licentiousness, selfishness, relentless toadying and cutthroat political intrigue.”—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “One of the most provocative books on Mao to appear since the publication of Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China.”—Paul G. Pickowicz, The Wall Street Journal
Author : Ruth Karola Westheimer
Publisher : Center Point
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Change (Psychology)
ISBN : 9781628999600
"America's best-loved therapist, Dr. Ruth, is known for her wise counsel on all matters of the heart. Here she shares private stories from her past and her present, and her insights into living life to the fullest, at any age"--
Author : Solomon Posen
Publisher : Radcliffe Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Medicine in literature
ISBN : 9781857756098
Posen, a retired physician and a former English major, has indexed 1500 passages from approximately 600 novels, short stories and plays describing physicians. He also analyzes several persistent themes in literature, such as doctors' fees, lack of time, bedside manner and social status. Posen's extensive research has uncovered a resentment of doctors and a discontent with the medical profession that transcends time and place. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0755131231
This harsh and gritty story of Florence Nightingale does little to perpetuate the myth of the gentle lady of the lamp. Instead, through the eyes of his impassioned narrator, Richard Gordon lays bare the truth of this complex and chilling character.
Author : Elizabeth Harvey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1108484980
Highlights the surprising ways in which the Nazi regime permitted or even fostered aspirations of privacy.
Author : Elizabeth Seifert
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
ISBN : 9780860096795
Author : Joseph Collins
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190685794
Cinema, MD follows the intersection of medicine and film and how filmmakers wrote a history of medicine over time, analyzing not only changing practices, changing morals, and changing expectations but also medical stereotypes, medical activism, and violations of patients' integrity and autonomy. Examining over 400 films with medical themes over a century of cinema, this book establishes the cultural, medical, and historical importance of the artform.