Physician's Anthology: 20 Timeless Storybooks from the Physician's Desk
Medical Mysteries, Ethical Tales, and Histories of HealingBy Bernard Shaw, Arthur Cheney Train, L. T. Meade, Clifford Halifax, R. Austin Freeman, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Dillon Wallace, Eva Shaw McLaren, Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Marie E. Zakrzewska, Gertrude Hill Lewes, Melvin L. Severy, Elizabeth Blackwell, William Macmichael, James Bayard Clark, Harold Barclay, Winston K. Marks, Ellen M. Firebaugh, Amelia Young
Length126h 9m
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Physician's Anthology gathers twenty "storybooks from the physician's desk" into a capacious meditation on medicine as science, vocation, moral trial, and narrative occasion. Its selections range across fiction, memoir, biography, social observation, and medical reflection, juxtaposing dramatic scenes of diagnosis and care with broader accounts of public health, travel, professional ethics, and human vulnerability. The volume's interest lies in this formal variety: medicine emerges not merely as a subject but as a lens through which character, class, gender, and modernity become legible. The contributors represent an unusually wide literary and professional constellation, including prominent dramatists and novelists alongside physicians, medical reformers, explorers, and advocates for women's education and health. Their collective presence connects the anthology to nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century traditions of medical humanism, realist social inquiry, adventure writing, and reform literature. Voices shaped by clinical practice and institutional experience meet those attentive to domestic life, legal and social structures, and the imaginative possibilities of the case history. Recommended for readers of medical humanities, literary history, and social history, this collection offers a valuable single-volume encounter with divergent ways of narrating illness, treatment, and responsibility. Its breadth invites comparison across genres and eras, fostering an illuminating dialogue between professional knowledge and literary art.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length126 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Journey Through Marital Tales: 52 Storybooks
2The Doctor's Dilemma
3CAST:
4The Darrow Enigma
5THE EPISODE OF THE DARKENED ROOM
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6CHAPTER IV
7THE EPISODE OF RAMA RAGOBAH
8CHAPTER II
9CHAPTER II
10CHAPTER III
11CHAPTER III
12Dr. Rumsey's Patient
13CHAPTER I.
14CHAPTER V.
15CHAPTER IX.
16CHAPTER XIII.
17CHAPTER XVII.
18CHAPTER XXI.
19Mortmain
20I
21V
22THE VAGABOND
23THE MAN HUNT (pt. 1)
24THE MAN HUNT (pt. 2)
25NOT AT HOME
26THE LITTLE FELLER
27A Doctor in France, 1917-1919: The Diary of Harold Barclay
28PART I
291918
30Dr. Southwood Smith: A Retrospect
31INTRODUCTION. RECOLLECTIONS OF MY GRANDFATHER.
32CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE, 1788–1820.
33CHAPTER II. FIRST YEARS IN LONDON-DAWN OF THE SCIENCE OF MODERN HYGIENE, 1820–1834.
34CHAPTER III. LONDON CONTINUED—LITERARY AND OTHER WORK, 1820–1834.
35CHAPTER IV. WORK ON THE FACTORY COMMISSION, 1833.
36CHAPTER V. RISE OF THE SANITARY MOVEMENT, 1837.
37CHAPTER VI. PHILANTHROPIC AND MEDICAL WORK, 1840–1848.
38CHAPTER VIII. OFFICIAL LIFE—GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 1848–1854.
39CHAPTER IX. RETIREMENT FROM PUBLIC LIFE—ST GEORGE'S HILL, WEYBRIDGE, 1854–1860.
40CHAPTER X. THE SUNSET OF LIFE—ITALY, 1861.
41CHAPTER XI. THE AFTERGLOW.
42APPENDIX
43APPENDIX I.
44APPENDIX II.
45Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
46Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
47PREFACE
48CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE IN ENGLAND 1821
49CHAPTER II EARNING MONEY FOR MEDICAL STUDY 1845-1847
50CHAPTER III STUDY IN AMERICA 1847-1849
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