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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

The physician in literature, edited by Norman Cousins.

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1982.

Sections are devoted to research and serendipity, the role of the physician, quacks and clowns, clinical descriptions in literature, doctors and students, the practice, women and healing, madness, dying, and the patient, among others.  The authors include Auden, Bellow, Dickens, Doyle, Fitzgerald, Flaubert, Goethe, Holmes, Keats, Mann, Maugham, Melville, Orwell, Schweitzer, Shakespeare, Shaw, Tolstoy, Twain, Williams, and Zinsser, etc.

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Entry Number#10816
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/13012
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External URLthe-physician-in-literature

Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia