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Between Doctors and Patients

Hardcover • 1998 • English

Between Doctors and Patients

By Lilian R. Furst

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About the book

In Between Doctors and Patients, Lilian R. Furst brings together the seemingly incompatible worlds of medicine and literature to illustrate the changing balance of power between doctors and patients since the evolution of modern medicine. Linking popular novels with recent works of medical history, she offers an astute portrait of medicine's emergence from a semi-quack profession to one of the most revered in contemporary society. Furst shows how vividly such novels as Eliot's Middlemarch, Lewis...Show more

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ISBN

9780813917559

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Between Doctors and Patients

Format

Hardcover

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