Description: An anthology of nineteenth-century literature about medicine and medical issues.
Brief description: Lilian R. Furst is Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous books include Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature, published by SUNY Press; Just Talk: Narratives of Psychotherapy; and Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power.
Review Quotes:
"The first such resource of its kind for the study of medicine in literature. Furst's introductions and selections show that nineteenth-century literature can help students understand current medical practice because it portrays the beginnings of technological and scientific medicine, with problems, values, situations, and relationships that are still with us today." -- Peter W. Graham, coauthor of Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters
"Lilian Furst has produced a welcome and useful addition to the growing field of medical humanities. Premedical and medical students as well as doctors with an interest in medical literature and history will find this a delightful and informative read." -- Larry Zaroff, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine