The Portrayal of the Physician in Non-Medical Literature — Favourable Portrayals

Posen S. The portrayal of the physician in non-medical literature: The physician and his fee. J Roy Soc Med 1992; 85: 5–7

Posen S. The portrayal of the physician in non-medical literature: The physician with the one-track mind. J Roy Soc Med 1992; 85: 66–8

Posen S. The portrayal of the physician in non-medical literature: The physician and his family. J Roy Soc Med 1992; 85: 314–17

Posen S. The portrayal of the physician in non-medical literature: Resentment, confrontation, litigation. J Roy Soc Med 1992; 85: 520–3

Posen S. The portrayal of the physician in non-medical literature: The physician and religion. J Roy Soc Med 1992; 85: 659–62

Posen S. The portrayal of the physician in non-medical literature: The physician and his colleagues. J Roy Soc Med 1993; 86: 410–12

Posen S. The portrayal of the physician in non-medical literature: The female physician. J Roy Soc Med 1993; 86: 345–8

Posen S. The portrayal of the physician in non-medical literature: The bedside manner. J Roy Soc Med 1993; 86: 582–6

Turow J. Playing Doctor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989: 13

Seifert E. Bachelor Doctor (first published 1969). London: Collins, 1971: 68

Shem PS . The House of God. New York: Richard Marek, 1978

Wilbanks E. The doctor as romantic hero. JAMA 1972; 220: 54–7

Cable GW . Dr Sevier. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883

Kingsley C. Two Years Ago (first published 1857). London: MacMillan & Co., 1884: 303–4

Jewett SO . A Country Doctor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1884: 33

de Balzac H . The commission in lunacy (first published 1836). In: Bell C , transl. The Atheist's Mass and Other Stories. London: Dent, (undated):183–6

Amundsen DA . Romanticizing the ancient medical profession: The characterization of the physician in the Graeco-Roman novel. Bull Hist Med 1974; 48: 320–37

Wolde G. Thomas Goes to the Doctor (first published 1972). Winn A, transl. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989

Martineau H. Deerbrook (first published 1839). London: Virago Press, 1983: 173–8

Lewis S. Main Street (first published 1920). New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1948

McCullers C. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (first published 1943). London: Cresset Press, 1953: 138

Camus A. The plague (first published 1947). In: Gilbert S , transl. The Collected Fiction of Albert Camus. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960: 121–2

Phelps ES . Doctor Zay (first published 1882). New York: Feminist Press, 1987: 51–2

Drabble M. The Radiant Way. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987: 132–3

Seifert E. Bright Scalpel (first published 1941). New York: Aeonian Press Inc., 1973: 10

Richardson HH . The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (first published 1917–1929). London: Penguin, 1990: 205

Cronin AJ . The Citadel. London: Gollancz, 1937

Poynter FNL . Doctors in the human comedy. JAMA 1968; 204: 105–8

de Balzac H . Pierrette (first published 1840). Ives GB, transl. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, 1897: 215–16

de Balzac H . The Country Doctor (first published 1833). Marriage E, transl. London: Dent, 1923

de Balzac H . Cousin Pons (first published 1847). Hunt HJ, transl. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968

Hemingway E. God rest ye merry, gentlemen. In: The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938: 392

Posen S. The portrayal of the physician in non-medical literature: Versatile scholar or ignorant boor? J Roy Soc Med (in press)

Bellamann H. Kings Row (first published 1940). Sydney: Dymocks, 1945

Faulkner W. The Wild Palms. New York: Random House, 1939

James H. Washington Square (first published 1881). New York: Bantam Books, 1959

Williams WC . Old Doc Rivers (first published 1932). In: The Doctor Series. New York: New Directions, 1984: 13–41

Ross L. The ordeal of Dr Blauberman. New Yorker, 13 May 1961, p 39

Posen S. The portrayal of the physician in non-medical literature: The physician who dislikes his trade. J Roy Soc Med 1993; 86: 67–8