商品簡介
Aimed at medical professionals and students as well as interested lay readers, this indexed anthology contains some 1500 extracts from approximately 600 works of fiction describing doctors as major or minor characters. The selections are organized around six main themes relevant to the doctor's private life: family, colleagues, religion, extracurricular interests, frustration/burnout, and the impaired doctor. Posen taught medicine at Sydney U. in Australia for almost 30 years. The book is published by Radcliffe Publishing, UK; U.S. distribution is by BookMasters. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)