Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories

Carol Donley and Martin Kohn believe that "physicians stand at a unique vantage point as observers of the human condition". In this text, contributors attempt to prove this assertion through their prose on a diverse range of topics.

About the author

Carol Donley is professor of English at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio. She is the coauthor of Einstein as Myth and Muse (Cambridge University Press, 1986), and coeditor of The Tyranny of the Normal (Kent State University Press, 1996) and What's Normal?: Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders (Kent State University Press, 2000).
Martin Kohn is associate professor of behavior sciences at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown, Ohio, and codirector, with Carol Donley, of the Center for Literature, Medicine, and Health Care Professions at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio. He is coeditor, with Carol Donley and Denise Wear of Literature and Aging: An Anthology (Kent State University Press, 1992).

Summary

Carol Donley and Martin Kohn believe that "physicians stand at a unique vantage point as observers of the human condition". In this text, contributors attempt to prove this assertion through their prose on a diverse range of topics.

Product details

• Authors: Center for Literature Medicine & the Hea
• Assisted by: Carol Donley (Editor), Carol C. Donley (Editor), Martin Kohn (Editor)
• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9780873387255
• ISBN: 978-0-87338-725-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 241 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 327 g
• Series: Literature & Medicine; Literature and Medicine Series; Literature and Medicine
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General