Tag: Michael D. Shulman
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Arthur Conan Doyle and the romance of medicine
Michael ShulmanPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States For medical professionals devoted to good literature, Dr. (later Sir) Arthur Conan Doyle is a source of possessive pride. He is someone like them, a physician with the interests of a polymath and the creative sensibility of an artist. And yet this cannot be a complete account because at the…
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Saints on trial
Michael ShulmanNew Hope, Pennsylvania, United States There is an irresistible sub-genre of literature devoted to the moral takedown of saints and would-be saints, and it has brought forth contributions from some of the masters of English prose. One thinks especially of George Orwell’s portrait of Gandhi (“Saints should always be judged guilty until they are…