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Literatim

Literatim

Essays at the Intersections of Medicine and Culture

9780190070007
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A FIRST-EVER COLLECTION FROM AMERICAS MOST DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN OF MEDICINE AND CULTURAL LIFEFrom Howard Markel, author of An Anatomy of Addiction Absorbing, vivid - Sherwin Nuland, The New York Times Book Review, front page) and The Kelloggs (2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Biography), Literatim is a collection of the writers essays on medicine, American culture, and how their intersections compose the interstitial matter of modern life.Through topics ranging from illness to baseball to the lives of Americas most beloved artists and performers, Markels eye for the unexamined corners of contemporary life align with his singular storytelling ability for a collection that demonstrates how literature, like medicine, can be a portal to better understanding the human condition. Selected and with an introduction by the award-winning and bestselling author, Literatim gathers more than 80 essays, a thirty-year retrospective of Markels work from 1987 to 2019. Although writers and physicians use markedly different tools and approaches, he writes, both are recording and interpreting narratives. Literatim is a stirring and entertaining testament to that persisting truth.
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OUP USA
88459
9780190070007
9780190070007

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Publication date
2020
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
384
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 235
Weight (g)
726
  • Part I: Medical Literature; 1.I swear by Apollo - the Hippocratic Oath; 2. The death of Samuel Johnson: A clinicopathologic conference; 3. Charles Dickens work to help establish the Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital in London; 4. The medical detectives: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Case of Robert Kochs lymph; 5. The last alcoholic days of F. Scott Fitzgerald; 6. Blowing the Whistle: The internship of William Carlos Williams, MD, and his abrupt resignation from the New York Nursery and Childs Hospital; 7. Sinclair Lewiss Arrowsmith: The great American medical novel; 8. Living (and practicing) in the shadow of the house of God; Part II: Medical Texts; 9. The stethoscope and the art of listening; 10. Experiments and observations: How William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin Seized the Moment of Scientific Progress; 11. On John Snow; 12. Dr. Oslers relapsing fever; 13. The extraordinary Dr. Biggs; 14. Sigmund Freuds long line of cocaine. Part I: Carl Koller; 15. Sigmund Freuds long line of cocaine. Part II: the Accidental Addict; 16. Exploring the dangerous trades With Dr. Alice Hamilton; 17. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: How a textbook, a former Baptist minister, and an oil tycoon shaped the modern American medical and public health industrial-research complex; 18. Onward Howard Kelly, marching as to war; 19. April 12, 1955 - Tommy Francis and the Salk Vaccine; 20. John Harvey Kellogg and the pursuit of wellness; Part III: Medical Performances ; 21. Grasping at straws: Eugene ONeill, tuberculosis, and transformation; 22. Men in White: the operating rooms debut Into popular American culture; 23. Not so great moments: The discovery of ether anesthesia and Its re-discovery by Hollywood; 24. Calling Dr. Kildare: The literary lives of Frederick Schiller Faust, a.k.a. Max Brand; 25.Gotta sing! Gotta diagnose! A postmortem examination of Rodgers and Hammersteins medical musical Allegro; 26. Cole Porters eventful nights and days; 27. Physician, heal thyself: Arthur Miller, Henrik Ibsen, and the enemies of the people; Part IV: A Certain PBS-ness of the Soul; 28. George Gershwins too-short life ended on a blue note; 29. Elvis addiction was the perfect prescription for an early death; 30. How a strange rumor of Walt Disneys death became legend; 31. A symphony of second opinions on Mozarts final illness; 32. Marilyn Monroe and the prescription drugs that killed her; 33. Did Lou Gehrig actually die of Lou Gehrigs disease?; 34. The Home Run King Babe Ruth helped pioneer modern cancer treatment; 35. Remembering Ryan White, the teen who fought against the stigma of AIDS; 36. June 22, 1969: The day Judy Garlands star burned out; 37. How Raisin in the Sun author Lorraine Hansberry defined what it meant to be young, gifted and black; 38. Edgar Allan Poes greatest mystery was his death; 39. The medical mystery that helped make Thomas Edison an inventor; 40. How a hotel convention became ground zero for this deadly bacteria; 41. The brilliant brothers behind the Mayo Clinic; 42. How Walter Reed earned his status as a legend and hospital namesake; 43. Dr. Alzheimer and the patient who helped reveal a devastating disease; 44. Diagnosing Vincent Van Gogh; 45. How poet John Keats met his early end; 46. The infectious disease that sprung Al Capone from Alcatraz; 47. Dr. Albert Schweitzer, a renowned medical missionary with a complicated history; 48. How playing with dangerous x-rays led to the discovery of radiation treatment for cancer; 49. How Medicare came to be, thanks to Harry S. Truman; 50. How to save a dying heart; 51. C. Everett Koops rise from Dr. Unqualified to surgeon-in-chief; 52. A hormonal happy birthday; 53. For Dostoevsky, epilepsy was a matter of both life and literature; 54. The death of Oscar Wilde: the wittiest man who ever lived; 55. April 23, 1616: the day William Shakespeare died; 56. But what caused Houdinis mysterious death?; 57. September 29: The Tylenol Murders of 1982; 58. The day doctors began to conquer smallpox; 59. In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: wash your hands; 60. Goodbye, Farewell and Amen: the final episode of M*A*S*H, February 28, 1893; 61. Louis Pasteurs risky move to save a boy from almost certain death; 62. I Have Seen My Death: how the world discovered the X-Ray; 63. How a boy became the first to beat back diabetes; 64. Alfred Nobels spirit of discovery; 65. The real story behind penicillin; 66. The day scientists discovered the secret of life; 67. The Surgeon Generals famous report that alerted Americans to the deadly dangers of cigarettes; 68. The publication of Alcoholics Anonymous: One of the most Influential books in the history of medicine and public health; 69. Presidents get sick and die. What happens next hasnt always been clear; 70. Dec. 14, 1799: The excruciating final hours of President George Washington; 71. The dirty, painful death of President James A. Garfield; 72. When a secret president ran the country; 73. The strange death of Warren G. Harding; 74. Franklin D. Roosevelts painfully eloquent final words; 75. How Florence Nightingale cleaned up hell on earth hospitals and became an international hero; 76. Celebrating Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first African-American woman physician; 77. How Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female doctor in the U.S.; 78. Clara Bartons crusade to bring the Red Cross to America; 79. Happy birthday to the woman who revolutionized endocrinology; 80. The quarantine of Typhoid Mary Malone; 81. How Nellie Bly went undercover to expose abuse of the mentally ill; Acknowledgments; Index;
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