Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780873387804
In his brief life, Chekhov was a doctor, essayist, dramatist and a humanitarian. He saw no conflict between art and science or art and medicine. This collection of stories presents powerful portraits of doctors in their everyday lives, struggling with their own personal problems.
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Short stories
ISBN :
Here is a unique collection of short stories by one of the world's most beloved storytellers, Anton Chekhov. Selected and with an introduction by author Tobias Wolff, these stories are some of Chekhov's most powerful and memorable works. Includes The Kiss and Dreams.
Author : Borys Surawicz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1315357860
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 : John Coope
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Authors, Russian
ISBN :
Author : J. Bogousslavsky
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3318022721
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 : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2024-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Experience the intense and somber narrative of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's "Typhus." This compelling short story delves into the impact of a typhus outbreak on a community, exploring themes of illness, fear, and the human response to disease. Chekhov’s narrative captures the emotional and social effects of the epidemic, providing a vivid portrayal of the struggles faced by those affected. Chekhov, celebrated for his empathetic and realistic portrayals of human experiences, presents a story that offers a profound examination of the effects of disease on individuals and their communities. The narrative provides a reflective look at the broader implications of health crises and the human capacity for resilience and compassion in the face of adversity."Typhus" is a powerful read for those interested in Chekhov’s exploration of illness and its societal impact. Perfect for readers who appreciate stories that address the emotional and social dimensions of health crises and the human experience.
Author : Stephanie M. Hilger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2017-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137519886
This book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the articles continue the dialogue between the disciplines of literature and medicine that was initiated in the 1970s and has continued with ebbs and flows since then. Recently, the need to renew that interdisciplinary dialogue between these two fields, which are both concerned with the human condition, has resurfaced in the face of institutional challenges, such as shrinking resources and the disappearance of many spaces devoted to the exchange of ideas between humanists and scientists. This volume presents cutting-edge research by scholars keen on not only maintaining but also enlivening that dialogue. They come from a variety of cultural, academic, and disciplinary backgrounds and their essays are organized in four thematic clusters: pedagogy, the mind-body connection, alterity, and medical practice.
Author : H.N. Mandell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1489920013
When a doctor gets sick, his status changes. No longer is his role de fined as deriving from doctus, i. e. , learned, but as from patiens, the present participle of the deponent verb, patior, i. e. , to suffer, with all the passive acceptance of pain the verb implies. From pass us, the past participle, we get the word passion, with its wide gamut of emotional allusions, ranging from animal lust to the sufferings of martyrs. It is the connotation, not the denotation, of the word that defines the change of status. When a doctor is sick enough to be admitted to a hospital, he can no longer write orders; orders are written about him, removing him from control of his own situation. One recalls a sonnet from W. H. Auden's sequence, The Quest, which closes with the lines: Unluckily they were their situation: One should not give a poisoner medicine, A conjuror fine apparatus, Nor a rifle to a melancholic bore. That is a reasonable expression of twentieth-century skepticism and ra tionalism. Almost all medical literature is written from the doctor's point of view. Only a few medically trained writers-one thinks of Chekhov's Ward Six-manage to incorporate the patient's response to his situa tion. Patients' voices were not much in evidence until well into the twentieth century, but an early example is John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624).
Author : Donald Rayfield
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0571309291
The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merits it unhesitatingly. To quote no less an authority than Michael Frayn: 'With question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and likely to remain so for a very long time to come. Donald Rayfield starts with the huge advantage of much new material that was prudishly suppressed under the Soviet regime, or tactfully ignored by scholars. But his mastery of all the evidence, both old and new - a massive archive - is magisterial, his background knowledge of the period is huge; his Russian is sensitive to every colloquial nuance of the day, and his tone is sure. He captures a likeness of the notoriously elusive Chekhov which at last begins to seem recognisably human - and even more extraordinary.' Chekhov's life was short, he was only forty-four when he died, and dogged with ill-health but his plays and short stories assure him of his place in the literary pantheon. Here is a biography that does him full justice, in short, unapologetically to repeat that word 'definitive'. 'I don't remember any monograph by a Western scholar on a Russian author having such success. . . Nikita Mikhalkov said that before this book came out we didn't know Chekhov. . . The author doesn't invent, add or embellish anything . . . Rayfield is motivated by the Westerner's urge not ot hold information back, however grim it may be.' Anatoli Smelianski, Director of Moscow Arts Theatre School 'It is hard to imagine another book about Chekhov after this one by Donald Rayfield.' Arthur Miller, Sunday Times 'Donald Rayfield's exemplary biography draws on a daunting array of material inacessible or ignored by his predecessors.' Nikolai Tolstoy, The Literary Review 'Donald Rayfield, Chekhov's best and definitive biographer.' William Boyd, Guardian
Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573609718
A collection of vignettes including an old woman who storms a bank and upbraids the manager for his gout and lack of money, a father who takes his son to a house for sex only to relent at the last moment, a grafty seducer who realizes it is the married woman who is in command, the tale of a man who offers to drown himself for three rubles, etc.
