Doctors in fiction : lessons from literature / Borys Surawicz and Beverly Jacobson.

Oxford : Radcliffe Pub., [2009], ©2009.

xi, 202 pages ; 25 cm

Dr. Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar in Mistress of the art of death by Ariana Franklin -- Dr. Stephen Maturin in The Aubrey-Maturin chronicles by Patrick O'Brian -- Dr. Tertius Lydgate in Middlemarch by George Eliot -- Dr. Martin Arrowsmith in Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis -- Dr. Andrew Manson in The Citadel by A.J. Cronin -- Dr. Lucas Marsh in Not as a stranger by Morton Thompson -- Cancer ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn --Doctors on the island of Capri, Dr. Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe, [and] Dr. Elisabeth Moor in An impossible woman : the memoirs of Dottoressa Moor by Elisabeth Moor with an introduction by Graham Greene -- Dr. Bernard Rieux in The Plague by Albert Camus -- Dr. Antoine Thibault in Les Thibaults by Roger Martin du Gard -- Dr. Ravic in Arch of triumph by Erich Maria Remarque -- Dr. Yuri Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak -- Dr. Dick Diver in Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald --

Dr. Howard Berger in Ordinary people by Judith Guest -- Dr. Johanna von Haller in The manticore by Robertson Davies -- Dr. Jonathan Hullah in The cunning man by Robertson Davies -- Ward no. 6 and other stories by Anton Chekhov -- Physicians in the world of Graham Greene : A burnt-out case. The human factor. The honorary consul -- Drs. Wilbur Larch and Homer Wells (alias Dr. Fuzzy Stone) in The cider house rules by John Irving -- Dr. Henry Wilbourne in The wild palms by William Faulkner -- Satire from the 17th to the 20th century : 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 -- Doctors in the plays Ivanov, The seagull, Uncle Vanya, and The three sisters -- Dr. Thomas Stockman in An enemy of the people by Henrik Ibsen -- Dr. Benjamin Rubin in Open heart by A.B. Yehoshua -- Dr. Henry Perowne in Saturday by Ian McEwan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.