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Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales

Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales

Coulehan
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Coulehan, Jack

Paperback

Series: Literature and Medicine, Book 5

Fiction Anthologies

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 0873387805
ISBN13: 9780873387804
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: Sep 12 2003
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose continues to offer moral insight and to resonate with readers across the world.

Chekhov experienced no conflict between art and science or art and medicine. He believed that knowledge of one complemented the other. Chekhov brought medical knowledge and sensitivity to his creative writing--he had an intimate knowledge of the world of medicine and the skills of doctoring, and he utilized this information in his approach to his characters. His sensibility as a medical insider gave special poignancy to his physician characters. The doctors in his engaging tales demonstrate a wide spectrum of behavior, personality, and character. At their best, they demonstrate courage, altruism, and tenderness, qualities that lie at the heart of good medical practice. At their worst, they display insensitivity and incompetency.

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