Overview

This collection of essays examines the various representations of medicine in French Literature, from the Middle Ages to the present. It addresses questions of how we have developed, authorized and dealt with the concept of being studied and treated as scientific subjects. This study also investigates how we negotiate being patients, doctors, and spectators in defining the concept and the field of medicine.

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Author:   Lison Baselis-Bitoun ,  Ji-hyun Philippa Kim
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773415126

ISBN 10:   0773415122
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface by Richard Terdiman; Introduction; 1. Doctor Love, or Is There an Erotic Therapy? Survey of Twelfth-and Thirteenth-Century Literature; 2. Auctors vs. Doctors in Chretien de Troyes' Cliges; 3. Fragmented Bodies: From the Blason to the Book of Anatomy; 4. Authors Plagued: The Black Death through Works of Sixteenth-Century Writers Struck First-hand, Marot, Montaigne, D'Aubigne, Pare; 5. Medicine in Moliere's Theater; 6. Melancholy and Holistic Medicine in Seventeenth-Century France; 7. Sangrado and Eighteenth-Century Caricatures of the Physician; 8. Where Have all the Doctors Gone? Making French Doctors Respectable: The Doctor-Philosophe, Bordeu in Diderot's Reve de D'Alembert; 9. From La medecine experimentale to Le roman experimental; 10. The Scalpel of Derision: Depictions of Doctors in fin de siecle Short Fiction; 11. On Medicine and Elite Culture in Twentieth-Century France; 12. Transplanted Identities: Maurice Renard's Docteur Lerne, Sous-Dieu; Index.

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This book is a model of life, spirit and the good health of ten centuries of great literature. (Prof. Tom Conley Harvard University)

"""This book is a model of life, spirit and the good health of ten centuries of great literature."" (Prof. Tom Conley Harvard University)"""

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