American Medicine: An Annotated Bibliography

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Medical subjects hold a fascination for the reading public. The reasons are clear: medical fiction and nonfiction deal with issues of life and death, concern themselves with human beings under stress, reveal hidden worlds (e.g., the intricacies and operations of high technology), describe mysteries only to be unraveled by scientific detection, and present critical analyses of the medical establishment. The subject matter contains something for everyone.A historical perspective on the lay medical literature is fascinating. It includes great writers of classics dealing with medicine, such as the short stories of Chekhov and William Carlos Williams or Somerset Maugham's Of . . .

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