Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 734 g
Essays at the Intersections of Medicine and Culture
Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 734 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-007000-7
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
A FIRST-EVER COLLECTION FROM AMERICA'S MOST DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN OF MEDICINE AND CULTURAL LIFE
From 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 writer's 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 America's most beloved artists and performers, Markel's 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 Markel's 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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- 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 Children's Hospital in London
- 4. The medical detectives: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Case of Robert Koch's 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 Child's Hospital
- 7. Sinclair Lewis's 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. Osler's relapsing fever
- 13. The extraordinary Dr. Biggs
- 14. Sigmund Freud's long line of cocaine. Part I: Carl Koller
- 15. Sigmund Freud's 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 O'Neill, tuberculosis, and transformation
- 22. Men in White: the operating room's 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 Hammerstein's medical musical Allegro
- 26. Cole Porter's 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 Gershwin's 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 Disney's death became legend
- 31. A symphony of second opinions on Mozart's final illness
- 32. Marilyn Monroe and the prescription drugs that killed her
- 33. Did Lou Gehrig actually die of 'Lou Gehrig's 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 Garland's 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 Poe's 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 Koop's 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 Houdini's 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 Pasteur's 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 Nobel's spirit of discovery
- 65. The real story behind penicillin
- 66. The day scientists discovered the 'secret of life'
- 67. The Surgeon General's 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 hasn't 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. Roosevelt's 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 Barton's 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
