Literary Vignettes
Michael Bloor
Mikhael Bulgakov’s “The Steel Windpipe” in A Country Doctor’s Notebook
Anton Chekhov and the Sakhalin Penal Colony
Paul Dakin
“Super” heroes: Special powers in deaf characters
George Dunea
Consider the nails of the hand, how they grow (William Bean)
The doctor’s revenge in Jules Verne’s Mathias Sandorf
Edgar Allen Poe and The Masque of the Red Death
Gulliver’s visit to the Academy of Lagado
Madame Bovary: The clubfoot operation
The physician in spite of himself (Molière)
Jane Austen and the hypochondriacs
Francis Peabody: caring for the patient
The last illness of Père Goriot
Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne
“The Grasshopper” by Chekhov: folly and regrets
Peter Mark Roget, MD, FRS of the Thesaurus
Lead poisoning in Northern Yorkshire
Doctor Rabelais Part I: The education of Gargantua
Doctor Rabelais Part II: The adventures of Pantagruel and Panurge
Doctor Rabelais Part III: Doctor Rondibilis on bridling the senses
Doctor Rabelais Part IV: Rabelais on women and doctors
Indo-European for health professionals
Doctor Thorne, a country apothecary new
Howard Fischer
Jared Griffin
Thomas De Quincey and Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Opium as Medicine and Beyond
Timo Hannu
Haunting poetic characteristics: the dissection scene from Doctor Zhivago
Juliet Beckman Hubbell
Putzer Hung
Where no birds sing: tuberculosis in Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
Nicholas Kang
Katharine Lawrence
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych, and the five stages of grief
Mateja Lekic
James Joyce’s Ulysses and the human experience FALL ’22
Stephen Martin
Sally Metzler
Does art belong in a doctor’s office?
Henrik Ibsen’s diagnosis of the conscience
A Treatment for “Circular Insanity”: Joseph Roth’s Radetzky March
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding and the reputation of the medical profession 1742
Bernardo Ng
Mean dudes and mean deeds: Tarantino’s vision
Margaret Nowaczyk
Bryant Phan
Solomon Posen
The doctor in bed with the patient
The vindictive departmental chairman: a hospital tale of the 1970’s
Nicolas Roberto Robles
August Von Platen, inspiration for Death in Venice
The romantic suicide: Karoline von Günderrode
Nicolas Roberto Robles and Diego Peral
Love and syphilis: The marriage of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer FALL ’22
Vignettes
The doctor as writer (William Carlos Williams)
Plato on free and slave doctors
On the skill of physicians
On being idle and a patient
From Merdle to Madoff (Charles Dickens)
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
“How the Poor Die” by George Orwell, 1946
Companionable books
Suicide: always a tragedy? (JMS Pearce)
Famine and illness in War and Peace
The role of doctors in the intellectual life of Spain
A doctor of the old school FALL ’22
