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An anthology of nineteenth-century literature about medicine and medical issues.
Medical Progress and Social Reality is an anthology of nineteenth-century literature on medicine and medical practice. Situated at the interdisciplinary juncture of medicine, history, and literature, it includes mostly fictional but also some nonfictional works by British, French, American, and Russian writers that describe the day-to-day social realities of medicine during a period of momentous change. Issues addressed in these works include the hierarchy in the profession, the use of new instruments such as the stethoscope, the advent of women doctors, the function of the hospital, and the shifting balance of power between physicians and patients. The volume provides an introductory overview of the most important aspects of medical progress in the nineteenth century, and it includes an annotated bibliography of further readings in medical history and literature. Selections from Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Mikhail Bulgakov, and others are included, as well as the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics.
"The first such resource of its kind for the study of medicine in literature. Furst's introductions and selections show that nineteenth-century literature can help students understand current medical practice because it portrays the beginnings of technological and scientific medicine, with problems, values, situations, and relationships that are still with us today." — Peter W. Graham, coauthor of Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters
"Lilian Furst has produced a welcome and useful addition to the growing field of medical humanities. Premedical and medical students as well as doctors with an interest in medical literature and history will find this a delightful and informative read." — Larry Zaroff, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
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 Basis of Medical Practice: The Hippocratic Oath and Its Successors
The Hippocratic Oath
The Christian Hippocratic Oath
American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics
American Medical Association's 1980 Principles of Medical Ethics
2. An Old Style Doctor: An Introduction to Selections from Anthony TrollopeDr. Thorne
Dr. Thorne
Lady Arabella, a Patient in Two Minds
Sir Roger, a Cantakerous Patient
Dr. Fillgrave, a Rival
Sir Roger's Appeal to Dr. Thorne
3. The Cult of Pathology: An Introduction to Selections from Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris
Death in the Hospital
Dr. Griffon
Rounds
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 from George 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
Telephone and Car
A Case of Diphtheria
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
Enter Dr. Leslie
Practical Men versus Theorists
Nan, the Young "Assistant and Attendant"
"A Proper Vocation for Women"?
Risking a Woman's Happiness?
"A Silly Notion"?
Another Voice of Opposition
Setting a Dislocated Shoulder
13. A Shocking Discovery! An Introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Doctors of Hoyland"
"The Doctors of Hoyland"
14. Starting Up in Practice: An Introduction to Selections from Daniel W. Cathell's Book on the Physician Himself
Too Many Doctors
The Office
How to Dress
Affability
Dignity
Limitation of Practice
Collecting Fees
Further Historical and Literary Readings
Index