This column explores the links and synergies between medicine and literature. What roles
can literature play in reflecting and influencing good practice, and what sorts of images of …

Margiad Evans, in the period 1930–1950, an acclaimed English writer, developed
convulsive seizures at age 41 and died at age 50 from the tumor that had caused them. In …

Depend upon Jane Austen to want to unriddle the ironical dynamics of hypochondria. A
dauntless student of human nature, Austen flouted many of society's sacred cows, ones as …

Depictions of neurological illnesses in literature prompt questions as to how such
representations can inform lay readers about the realities of neurological disease and what …

I receive your first literary effort with pleasure, and I take comfort from this further bond
between us. You are not the first medical student who has written to tell me that he, too …

John Keats, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, François Rabelais, William Somerset Maugham... All
were writers of fiction but, more surprisingly, all were also medical doctors. Anton Chekhov …

On Wednesday 15 August 1846, Charlotte Brontë took her almost blind father from Haworth
to Manchester to consult a highly recommended eye surgeon, Mr WJ Wilson. On the …

This column explores the links and synergies between medicine and literature. What roles
can literature play in reflecting and influencing good practice, and what sorts of images of …

Medicine is firmly rooted in the sciences and derives much of its great power and influence
from these roots. In this paper the author, with a career in clinical medicine, argues that there …

Literature and medicine is a flourishing subdiscipline of literary studies that examines the
many relations between literary acts and texts and medical acts and texts. The author …