Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medical encounter.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Note on translations


• Introduction: Literary Medical Relationships and Encounters


• 1: Failed Ideals: The Country Doctor and his Patients from Balzac to Zola


• 2: Blood at the Bedside: Subverting the Medical Relationship in Stendhal


• 3: Medical Narratives and Diseased Bodies: Troubling Encounters in Sand and Balzac


• 4: Zola's Lourdes and the Mysteriousness of the Doctor-Patient Relationship


• Conclusion: Doctors and Patients: Into the Twenty-First Century


• Bibliography

About the author

Sarah Jones completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2019 and worked as a Departmental and College Lecturer in French where she specialized in teaching and research modern French literature. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Learning Designer at the University of Oxford.

Summary

This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medical encounter.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Jones, Sarah (Learning Designer Jones
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2024
• EAN: 9780198893790
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889379-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; French, MEDICAL / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, History of Medicine, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form