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  • Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: From Speculation to Science
  • Humoral Medicine
  • Cadavers and Instruments
  • Germ Theory
  • Antisepsis, Asepsis, and Anesthesia
  • Sociological Changes
  • 1. An Introduction to the Ethical Basisof Medical Practice: The Hippocratic Oath and Its Successors
  • The Hippocratic Oath
  • The Christian Hippocratic Oath
  • American Medical Association's 1847: Code of Ethics
  • American Medical Association's 1980: Principles of Medical Ethics.
  • 2. An Old Style Doctor: An Introduction to Selections from Anthony Trollope's Dr. Thorne
  • Dr. Thorne: Anthony Trollope
  • Lady Arabella, a Patient in Two Minds
  • Sir Roger, a Cantakerous Patient
  • Dr. Fillgrave, a Rival
  • Sir Roger's Appeal to Dr. Thorne
  • 3. The Cult of Pathology: An Introduction to Selections from Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris
  • Death in the Hospital
  • Dr. Griffon
  • Rounds
  • 4. Blood-Letting and Septic Surgery: An Introduction to Selections from Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary
  • A Broken Leg
  • Settling into Practice
  • A Blood-Letting
  • Surgery.
  • 5. Germs, Drugs, Diagnoses, and Cadavers: An Introduction to Selections fromGeorge Eliot's Middlemarch
  • A Conflict of Opinions
  • The New Hospital
  • Lydgate's Ideals
  • A Case of Typhoid Fever
  • Dispensing of Drugs
  • Abdominal Cramps and Pneumonia
  • Facing the Truth
  • Gathering Opposition
  • 6. The Laboratory and Its Products: An Introduction to Selections from Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • The Delinquent Mr. Hyde and His Check
  • Visits to Dr. Jekyll
  • Crying Out for the Drug
  • Dr. Jekyll's Experiments
  • Dr. Jekyll's Confession.
  • 7. Advances toward More Scientific Practice: An Introduction to Selections from Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith
  • Doc Vickerson's Office
  • Arrowsmith's Office in Wheatsylvania
  • How to Obtain Honor and Riches
  • A Case of Diphtheria
  • Telephone and Car
  • Plague
  • 8. Emergency: An Introduction to Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Steel Windpipe"
  • "The Steel Windpipe"
  • 9. Telling the Truth: An Introduction to Selections from Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks
  • Indigestion
  • Pneumonia
  • Stroke
  • 10. A Poor Woman's Plight: An Introduction to Selections from George Moore's Esther Waters.
  • Gaining Admission to Hospital
  • Giving Birth
  • 11. Hands-on Medical Training: An Introduction to Selections from Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage
  • The Medical Students
  • The Outpatient Clinic
  • 12. A Woman Doctor?: An Introduction to Selections from Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor
  • Enter Dr. Leslie
  • Practical Men versus Theorists
  • Nan, the Young"Assistant and Attendant"
  • "A Proper Vocation for Women"?
  • Risking a Woman's Happiness?
  • "A Silly Notion"?
  • Another Voice of Opposition
  • Setting a Dislocated Shoulder.