Medicine and Literature: The Doctor's Companion to the ClassicsCRC Press, 14/12/2018 - 96 páginas ‘Medicine and Literature’ is the doctor's guide to the classics. How can a doctor best understand the emotions and behaviour of his or her patients? An effective and deeply satisfying route is through an appreciation of literature, and the profound understanding its authors have of the human predicament. In this extraordinary and enlightening volume, general practitioner John Salinsky guides the reader through some of the world's finest works. In each chapter he describes a classic novel, short story, play or poem, revealing them to be easily accessible and enjoyable. He shows how parallels can be drawn between characters in literature and in the consulting room. Developed from his long-running column 'Education for Primary care, Dr Salinsky's book give doctors a new perspective on the doctor-patient relationship and provides unique support to communication skills. |
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... there that I first encountered John Salinsky and his boundless and infectious enthusiasm for human stories. Then it was the stories told by his patients; now, in this book, he brings the same qualities to the stories of literature. In ...
... there for me to revisit and the characters took up residence in my inner world. When I became a family doctor, I found myself in a world where people were constantly telling me their stories and sharing their feelings with me. Often ...
... there are times when thinking about the classics has helped me to be amused rather than enraged when patients behave in ways which doctors traditionally hate. I am thinking of the 'trivial complaints', the 'inappropriate demands' and ...
... there has to be 'a spark' between reader and book; there is no point in reading the classics out of a sense of duty or respect, we should only read them for love. The exception is reading at school; school has to teach you to know ...
... there is Emily Brontë's Dr Kenneth, who does his best with some very difficult patients in Wuthering Heights; we have Dr Slop the man-midwife, who makes a botched delivery of the infant Tristram Shandy (breaking his poor little nose in ...
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Anna Karenin by Lev Tolstoy | |
Postscript by Alistair Stead | |
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen | |
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
Tess of the dUrbervilles by Thomas Hardy | |
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence | |
The sonnets of William Shakespeare and John Donne | |
Middlemarch by George Eliot | |
If on a Winters Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino | |
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor | |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Jane Brontë | |
Ulysses by James Joyce | |
Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway Brian Glasser | |
Serving suggestions for teachers | |
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Medicine and Literature: The Doctor's Companion to the Classics, Volume 1 John Salinsky Pré-visualização limitada - 2002 |