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BL
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585571
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b414790
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| Title & Author
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Medical progress and social reality : : a reader in nineteenth-century medicine and literature /\ edited by Lilian R. Furst.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c2000.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series, the margins of literature
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xiv, 314 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0791448037 (alk. paper)
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: 9780791448038 (alk. paper)
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: 0791448045 (pbk. : alk paper)
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: 9780791448045 (pbk. : alk paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-310) and index.
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| Contents
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Ch. 1. An introduction to the ethical basis of medical practice: the hippocratic oath and its successors -- Ch. 2. An old style doctor: an introduction to selections from Anthony Trollope's Dr. Thorne -- Ch. 3. The cult of pathology: an introduction to selections from Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris -- Ch. 4. Blood-letting and septic surgery: an introduction to selections from Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- Ch. 5. Germs, drugs, diagnoses, and cadavers: an introduction to selections from George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Ch. 6. The laboratory and its products: an introduction to selections from Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Ch. 7. Advances toward more scientific practice: an introduction to selections from Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith -- Ch. 8. Emergency! an introduction to Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Steel Windpipe" -- Ch. 9. Telling the truth: an introduction to selections from Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks -- Ch. 10. A poor womans's plight: an introduction to selections from George Moore's Esther Waters -- Ch. 11. Hands-on medical training: an introduction to selections from Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage -- Ch. 12. A woman doctor? an introduction to selections from Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor -- Ch. 13. A shocking discovery! an introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Doctors of Hoyland" -- Ch. 14. Starting up in practice: an introduction to selections from Daniel W. Cathell's Book on the Physician Himself.
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| Subject
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Medicine, Literary collections.
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Literature and medicine-- History-- 19th century, Sources.
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Medicine in literature, Sources.
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Medicine in Literature.
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History of Medicine.
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History, 19th Century.
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| LC Classification
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PN6071.M38M39 2000
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| Added Entry
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Furst, Lilian R.
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