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The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

9780198893790
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The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the nineteenth-century French novel, notably in the words of Balzac, Sand, Stendhal, and Zola. It argues that the doctor-patient relationship is represented in these novels as a site of interpersonal negotiation wherein the meaning of medical authority, embodied experience, and the spectre of illness and pain are mediated and reimagined.This book highlights how the doctor-patient relationship is often idealized by the novel, wherein the doctor is characterised as a both dedicated to his patients and local community, as well as being a God-like master of life, death, and medical knowledge. The volume suggests that the doctor-patient encounteris often depicted as a separate, although inherently related, concept that undermines this idealisation of medical relationships. The doctor-patient encounter thereby questions the hegemonic power of medical practitioners over their patients by pointing towards how novels depict patients as resisting and even manipulating their doctors. The book identifies and explores other important themes within the doctor-patient relationship such as the medical gaze (regard medical), powerrelationships, and the use of embodied metaphor. In particular, the book highlights how the doctor-patient relationship is often a confrontation between scientific knowledge and the experience of gender and disability. The books conceptual framework is derived from the critical medical humanities, and the volumerevitalises and reframes the doctor-patient relationship by considering the intrinsic slippage between idealised relationships and critical encounters. The book uses close readings of its corpus to understand how medical practice is debated and undermined concurrently with its idealisation. It places literary works within a new historical context by reading across novels within their medical and scientific context, and situates them for the first time in the intellectual context of the criticalmedical humanities. The book points forward to how nineteenth-century French novels can reform how the critical medical humanities views the medical relationship, and the potential impact on real-world patients.
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OUP Oxford
102195
9780198893790
9780198893790

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Publication date
2024
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
240
Dimensions (mm)
153 x 234
  • Acknowledgements; Note on translations; Introduction: Literary Medical Relationships and Encounters; Failed Ideals: The Country Doctor and his Patients from Balzac to Zola; Blood at the Bedside: Subverting the Medical Relationship in Stendhal; Medical Narratives and Diseased Bodies: Troubling Encounters in Sand and Balzac; Zolas Lourdes and the Mysteriousness of the Doctor-Patient Relationship; Conclusion: Doctors and Patients: Into the Twenty-First Century; Bibliography;
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