Professor Lord Lister, William Ernest Henley, and Oscar Wilde.
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Dickens and doctors: vignettes of Victorian medicine.
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Clinical Medicine↗
Excessive impertinence or a missed diagnosis?
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Animal Diseases↗
One of the oldest cases of schizophrenia in Gogol's Diary of a Madman.
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Famous Persons↗
Regularly imbibing Dickens may inspire healthfulness.
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Happiness↗
White coats and fingerprints: diagnostic reasoning in medicine and investigative methods of fictional detectives.
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Decision Making↗
Literature and medicine.
There are various ways in which medicine and literature interact, but this paper concentrates on the contribution which literature can make to 'whole person understanding'. Scientific understanding is concerned with seeing events and actions in terms of patterns or similarities. But 'whole person understanding' is concerned with uniqueness or with what it is for a given person to have an illness. Literature can in various ways develop this kind of understanding.
Attitude to Health↗
Dickens, dystonia and dyskinesia.
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Dystonia↗
First description of myasthenia gravis in Spain.
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Vasovagal attacks.
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History, 18th Century↗
Disorders of higher cortical function.
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Brain Diseases↗
Some Proustian doctors.
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Neurology in literature. Some of Trollope's doctors.
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England↗
Doctors' remedies.
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History, 18th Century↗