Doctors in Fiction
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Doctors in Fiction Lessons from Literature BORYS SURAWICZ M.D., M.A.C.C. Professor Emeritus of Medicine University of Indiana School of Medicine Past President, Association of University Cardiologists Past President, American College of Cardiology and BEVERLY JACOBSON Freelance Writer Radcliffe Publishing Oxford • New York Contents Preface ix About the authors xi PART QUE: EARLY DOCS 1 Dr. Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar 3 in Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin 2 Dr. Stephen Maturin 11 in The Aubrey-Maturin Chronicles by Patrick O'Brian 3 Dr. Tertius Lydgate 22 in Middle/march by George Eliot PART TWO: IDEALISTIC DOCTORS 4 Dr. Martin Arrowsmith 31 in Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis 5 Dr. Andrew Manson 41 in The Citadel by AJ. Cronin 6 Dr. Lucas Marsh 52 in Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson 7 Cancer Ward 59 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 8 Doctors on the Island of Capri 66 Dr. Axei Munthe in The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe Dr Elisabeth Moor in An Impossible Woman The Memoirs ofDottoressa Moor by Elisabeth Moor with an introduction by Graham Greene 9 Dr Bernard Rieux 74 in The Plague by Albert Camus PART THREE: DESTROYED CAREERS 10 Dr Antome Thibault 83 in Les Thibault by Roger Martin du Gard 11 Dr Ravic 93 in Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque 12 Dr Yuri Zhivago 100 in Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak PART FOUR: NOVEL PSYCHIATRISTS 13 Dr Dick Diver 111 in Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald 14 Dr Howard Berger 117 in Ordinary People by Judith Guest 15 Dr Johanna Von Haller 120 in The Manticore by Robertson Davies 16 Dr Jonathan Hullah 127 in The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies PART FIVE: DISPIRITED DOCTORS 17 Ward No 6 and Other Stories 135 by Anton Chekhov 18 Physicians in the world of Graham Greene 143 A Burnt-Out Case The Human Factor The Honorary Consul PART SIX: ABORTION 19 Drs. Wilbur Larch and Homer Wells [alias Dr. Fuzzy Stone] 153 in The Cider House Rules by John Irving 20 Dr. Henry Wilbourne 158 in The Wild Palms by William Faulkner PART SEVEN: SATIRIZED DOCTORS 21 Satire from the 17th to the 20th century 165 The Flying Doctor by Moliere The Doctor in Spite of Himself by Moliere Pygmalion and Three Other Plays by George Bernard Shaw The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek PART EIGHT: DOCTORS IN DRAMAS 22 Doctors in the plays Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and The Three Sisters 177 by Anton Chekhov 23 Dr. Thomas Stockman 181 in An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen PART NINE: CONTEMPORARY DOCTORS 24 Dr. Benjamin Rubin 187 in Open Heart by A.B. Yehoshua 25 Dr. Henry Perowne 194 in Saturday by Ian McEwan Reprint permissions for copyrighted material 199 Index 201.