|
Roster Of Physician Writers
We are surprised if the doctor, by
stealing some hours from his daily avocations, attains even
moderate eminence in the path of literature.
Edward Berdoe,1883 |
The following list includes the names, life-dates, and
nationalities of all the physician writers of whom I am aware, drawn
from a variety of
resources. To be included, an individual must be a physician (Doctor
of Medicine or of Osteopathy in the United States, or similarly
certified or accepted in countries other than the United States, or in
previous eras), and must have published (not just self-published) at
least one book (not just a chap book) of a "creative" nature - fiction,
poetry, drama, essay. Pseudonyms are italicized, preceded or
followed by real names. Each name is linked to a section of brief and
informal biographical (emphasizing medical training and work) and
bibliographical (including reference to background sources as well as
selected works) information, but no literary criticism. The total
number of authors included is of course but a fraction of all physician
writers, and, in addition to encouraging interest in this neglected
aspect of the literature and medicine, or medical humanities, field, one
reason for publishing this list is to invite suggestions for additions
to it.
Name |
Birth-Death |
Birth Country |
Abe Kobo
|
1924-1993 |
Japan |
Ablow, Keith |
1961- |
USA |
Abse, Dannie |
1923- |
Wales |
Akenside, Mark |
1721-1770 |
England |
Aksyonov (Aksenov), Vasily |
1932- |
Russia |
Alsop, Reese |
1913- |
USA |
Amosov, N.M. |
1913- |
Russia |
Anscombe, Roderick |
1947- |
England/USA |
Antunes, Antonio Lobo |
1942- |
Portugal |
Arbuthnot, John |
1667-1735 |
Scotland |
Armattoe, Raphael |
1913-1953 |
Ghana |
Armstrong, John |
1709-1779 |
Scotland |
Ashdown, Clifford |
|
|
Atkins, Charles |
1961- |
USA |
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) |
980-1037 |
Persia |
Ayvazian, L. Fred |
1919- |
Turkey/USA |
Flagg, Kenneth |
|
|
Levon, Fred |
|
|
Azimov, Janet |
1926- |
USA |
Azuela, Mariano |
1873-1952 |
Mexico |
Balfour, James |
1925- |
England |
Ball, Doris Bell |
1897-1987 |
England |
Bell, Josephine |
|
|
Bamforth, Iain |
1959- |
Scotland |
Barahona, Luis DeSoto |
1548-1595 |
Spain |
Barnard, Christiaan |
1922- |
South Africa |
Barnsley, Alan Gabriel |
1916-1986 |
England |
Fielding, Gabriel |
|
|
Baroja, Pio |
1872-1956 |
Spain |
Bates, David Vincent |
1922- |
England/Canada |
Bax, Martin |
1933- |
England |
Beauchemin, Neree |
1850-1931 |
Canada |
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell |
1803-1849 |
England |
Beernink, K.D. |
1938-1969 |
USA |
Benjamin, Claude |
1911- |
USA |
Edwards, Max |
|
|
George, Marion E. |
|
|
Benn, Gottfried |
1886-1956 |
Germany |
Berdoe, Edward |
1836-1916 |
England |
Scalpel, Aesculapius |
|
|
Bird, Robert Montgomery |
1806-1854 |
USA |
Biro, David |
|
USA |
Blackmore, Richard |
1654-1729 |
England |
Block, William A. |
|
USA |
Boas, Maurits Ignatius |
1892-1986 |
USA |
Borodin, George |
|
|
Brain, Walter Russell |
1895-1966 |
England |
Bridges, Robert |
1844-1930 |
England |
Bridie, James |
1888-1951 |
Scotland |
Henderson, Mary |
|
|
Mavor, Osborne Henry |
|
|
Briffault, Robert |
1876-1940 |
England |
Brown, John |
1810-1882 |
Scotland |
Browne, Sir Thomas |
1605-1682 |
England |
Buckman, Robert |
1948- |
England |
Bulgakov, Mikhail |
1891-1940 |
Russia |
Buttenwieser, Paul |
1938- |
USA |
Byron, Ronald |
|
South Africa |
Campion, Thomas |
1567-1620 |
England |
Campo, Rafael |
1964- |
USA |
Canin, Ethan |
1960- |
USA |
Carossa, Hans |
1878-1956 |
Germany |
Caruthers, William A. |
1802-1846 |
USA |
Cary, Falkland |
1897-1989 |
Ireland |
Casberg, Melvin Augustus |
1909- |
USA |
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand |
1894-1961 |
France |
Destouches, Louis-Ferdinand |
|
|
Chamberlayne, William |
1619-1689 |
England |
Channing, Walter |
1786-1862 |
USA |
Charach, Ron |
1951- |
Canada |
Chekhov, Anton |
1860-1904 |
Russia |
Chivers, Thomas Holley |
1807-1858 |
USA |
Chopra, Deepak |
1947- |
India/USA |
Church, Benjamin |
1734-1778 |
USA |
Close, William T. |
1924- |
USA |
Cloud, Daniel T. |
1925- |
USA |
Coelho, Joaquim |
1839-1871 |
Portugal |
Dinis, Julio |
|
|
Coldsmith, Don |
1926- |
USA |
Coles, Abraham |
1813-1891 |
USA |
Coles, Robert |
1929- |
USA |
Comfort, Alex |
1920-2000 |
England |
Conway, Peter |
|
|
Cook, Robin |
1940- |
USA |
Cooper, Rosaleen |
1894-1989 |
England |
Copman, Louis |
1934- |
USA |
Coulehan, Jack |
1943- |
USA |
Cowley, Abraham |
1618-1667 |
England |
Crabbe, George |
1754-1832 |
England |
Creel, Stephen Melville |
1938- |
USA |
Sachem, E.B. |
|
|
Crichton, J. Michael |
1942- |
USA |
Hudson, Jeffery |
|
|
Lange, John |
|
|
Cronin, A. J. |
1896-1981 |
England |
Crowley, Robert T. |
1913- |
USA |
Csath, Geza |
1887-1919 |
Hungary |
Cunningham, Robert S. |
1907- |
USA |
Cuthbert, Margaret |
1954- |
USA |
DaCosta, John Chalmers |
1863-1933 |
USA |
Darwin, Erasmus |
1731-1802 |
England |
Davis, Loyal |
1896-1982 |
USA |
Deeping, Warwick |
1877-1950 |
England |
Destouches, Louis-Ferdinand |
|
|
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand |
|
|
Deza, Ernest C. |
1923- |
Phillipines/USA |
Dinis, Julio |
|
|
Coelho, Joaquim |
|
|
Dismond, Henry Binga |
1891-1956 |
USA |
Doblin, Alfred |
1878-1957 |
Germany |
Doctor X |
|
|
Nourse, Alan Edward |
|
|
Dorsett, Thomas |
1945- |
USA |
Downman, Hugh |
1740-1809 |
England |
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
1859-1930 |
Scotland |
Drachman, Theodore S. |
1904-1988 |
USA |
Drake, Joseph |
1795-1820 |
USA |
Drummond, William H. |
1854-1907 |
Canada |
Duffy, Philip Edward |
1923- |
USA |
Duhamel, Georges |
1884-1966 |
France |
Dunn, Hugh Patrick |
1916- |
New Zealand |
Dwyer-Joyce, Alice |
1913- |
Ireland |
Easmon, R. Sarif |
1930- |
Sierra Leone |
Eeden, Frederik Willem Van |
1860-1932 |
Holland |
Eisenberg, Ronald L. |
1945- |
USA |
Ellis, Havelock |
1859-1940 |
England |
El Saadawi, Nawal |
1931- |
Egypt |
Emmott, Kirsten |
1947- |
Canada |
Engelberg, Alan D. |
1941- |
USA |
Engel, Alan |
|
|
English, Thomas Dunn |
1819-1902 |
USA |
Fairchild, Brad |
|
|
Forester, Bruce |
|
|
Ferron, Jacques |
1921-1985 |
Canada |
Fisher, Michael John |
1933- |
England |
Fisher, Rudolph |
1897-1934 |
USA |
Fitzwilliam, Michael |
|
|
Fleming, Paul |
1609-1640 |
Germany |
Forester, Bruce |
1939- |
USA |
Fairchild, Brad |
|
|
Foxe, Arthur Norman |
1902-1982 |
USA |
Fracastoro, Girolamo |
1478-1553 |
Italy |
Free, Spencer Michael |
1856-1938 |
USA |
Freeman, Richard Austin |
1862-1943 |
England |
Ashdown, Clifford |
|
|
Garth, Samuel |
1661-1719 |
England |
Gash, Jonathan |
|
|
Grant, John |
|
|
Gaunt, Graham |
|
|
Gawande, Atul |
1965- |
USA |
George, Marion E. |
|
|
Gerritsen, Terry |
1953- |
USA |
Gerritsen, Tess |
|
|
Glasser, Ronald J. |
1940- |
USA |
Gogarty, Oliver St. John |
1878-1957 |
Ireland |
Goldberg, E. Marshall |
1930- |
USA |
Goldberg, Leonard S. |
1936- |
USA |
Goldsborough, Robert |
|
|
Palmer, John Ransom |
|
|
Goldsworthy, Peter |
1951- |
Australia |
Goldszmit, Henryk |
1878-1942 |
Poland |
Korczak, Janusz |
|
|
Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank |
1936- |
Mexico/USA |
Gonzalez Martinez, Enrique |
1871-1952 |
Mexico |
Gordon, Richard |
|
|
Ostlere, Gordon |
|
|
Grainger, James |
1721-1766 |
Scotland |
Grant, James Russell |
1924- |
England |
Grant, John |
1933- |
England |
Gash, Jonathan |
|
|
Gaunt, Graham |
|
|
Greer, Douglas |
1939- |
USA |
Grevin, Jacques |
1538-1570 |
France |
Guirdham, Arthur |
1905- |
England |
Eaglesfield, Francis |
|
|
Gyllensten, Lars |
1921- |
Sweden |
Hake, Thomas Gordon |
1809-1895 |
Ireland |
Halberstam, Michael |
1932-1980 |
USA |
Ha-Lev, Judah |
1075-1141 |
Spain |
Haller, Albrecht von |
1708-1777 |
Switzerland |
Hammond, William A. |
1828-1900 |
USA |
Hard, Edward W., Jr. |
1939- |
USA |
Hard, T.W |
|
|
Hart, Alan |
1890-1962 |
USA |
Head, Sir Henry |
1861-1940 |
England |
Hejinian, John |
1941- |
USA |
Hellerstein, David |
1953- |
USA |
Helman, Cecil G. |
1944- |
S. Africa/England |
Henshaw, James Ene |
1924- |
Nigeria |
Hibberd, Jack |
1940- |
Australia |
Hilfiker, David |
1945- |
USA |
Hirschhorn, Richard Clark |
1933- |
USA |
Hoffmann, Heinrich |
1809-1894 |
Germany |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
1809-1894 |
USA |
Holub, Miroslav |
1923-1998 |
Czechoslovakia |
Hornberger, H. Richard |
1924-1997 |
USA |
Hooker, Richard |
|
|
Hume, Edward H. |
1876-1957 |
USA |
Huygen, Wil Joseph |
1922- |
Netherlands |
Huyler, Frank D. |
1964- |
USA |
Idris, Yusuf |
1927- |
Egypt |
Iovino, Rita |
|
USA |
Jefferson, Roland |
1939- |
USA |
Jelly, George Oliver |
1909- |
England |
Fosse, Alfred |
|
|
Harsch, Hilya |
|
|
Jenner, Edward |
1749-1823 |
England |
Jeppson, Janet O. |
1926- |
USA |
Jersild, Per Christian |
1935- |
Sweden |
Jones, Alice A. |
1949- |
USA |
Joseph, Robert Farras |
1935- |
USA |
Jung-Stilling, Johann |
1740-1817 |
Germany |
Kahn, James |
1947- |
USA |
Kappelman, Murray M. |
1931- |
USA |
Keats, John |
1795-1821 |
England |
Keller, David H. |
1880-1966 |
USA |
Kenealy, Arabella |
-1932 |
England |
Kerner, Justinus |
1786-1862 |
Germany |
Kerr, James |
1923- |
USA |
Keynes, Geoffrey |
1887-1982 |
England |
Klass, Perri |
1958- |
USA |
Klawans, Harold |
1937-1997 |
USA |
Klitzman, Robert |
1958- |
USA |
Knickerbocker, Charles H. |
1922- |
USA |
Knight, Bernard |
1931- |
Wales |
Picton, Bernard |
|
|
Kra, Siegfried |
1930- |
Poland/USA |
Kreitman, Norman |
1927- |
Scotland |
Kreutzwald, F. Reinhold |
1803-1882 |
Estonia |
Kudirka, Vincas |
1858-1899 |
Lithuania |
Laing, Ronald David |
1927-1989 |
Scotland |
Lake, George Burt |
1880-1943 |
USA |
Langer, Frantisek |
1888-1965 |
Czechoslovakia |
Lascola, Ray L. |
1915- |
USA |
LeBaron, Charles |
1943- |
USA |
Lee, Benjamin |
1921- |
England |
Leipoldt, C. Louis |
1880-1947 |
South Africa |
Lem, Stanislaw |
1921- |
Poland |
Levi, Carlo |
1902-1975 |
Italy |
Levy, Harry |
1944- |
USA |
Lieberman, Michael W. |
1941- |
USA |
Lima, Jorge de |
1895-1953 |
Brazil |
Liveson, Jay |
1937- |
USA |
Lodge, Thomas |
1557?-1625 |
England |
Lowbury, Edward |
1913- |
England |
Lulham, P. Habberton |
1865-1940 |
England |
Luzzatto, Ephraim |
1729-1792 |
Italy |
Lydston, G. Frank |
1858-1923 |
USA |
Lyons, J.B. |
1922- |
Ireland |
Fitzwilliam, Michael |
|
|
Mack, John Edward |
1929- |
USA |
Macphail, Sir Andrew |
1864-1938 |
Canada |
Mair, George Brown |
1914- |
Scotland |
MacDouall, Robertson |
|
|
Malcolm, Andrew |
1927- |
Canada |
Malcolm, Ian |
|
|
Maltz, Maxwell |
1899-1975 |
USA |
Mandeville, Bernard de |
1670-1733 |
England |
Maraire, Nozipo |
1966- |
Zimbabwe |
Marat, Jean-Paul |
1743-1793 |
France |
Marion, Robert W. |
1952- |
USA |
Marti-Ibanez, Felix |
1912-1972 |
Spain/USA |
Martin-Santos, Luis |
1924-1964 |
Spain |
Massad, Stewart |
1958- |
USA |
Mates, Susan Onthank |
1950- |
USA |
Maugham, W. Somerset |
1874-1965 |
England |
Mays, James A. |
1939- |
USA |
McClintock, Andrew |
1885-1923 |
USA |
McCrae, John |
1872-1918 |
Canada |
McGlashan, Alan Fleming |
1898- |
England |
Merliss, Reuben |
1915- |
USA |
Meyers, Michael Jay |
1946- |
USA |
Milkomane, George |
1903- |
Russia/England |
Borodin, George |
|
|
Braddon, George |
|
|
Conway, Peter |
|
|
Redwood, Alec |
|
|
Sava, George |
|
|
Miller, Benjamin Frank |
1907-1971 |
USA |
Miller, Jonathan |
1934- |
England |
Miller, Timothy |
1938- |
USA |
Mitchell, John Kearsley |
1798-1858 |
USA |
Mitchell, Silas Weir |
1829-1914 |
USA |
Mitra, Amitabh |
1955- |
India/S.Africa |
Modarressi, Taghi |
1931- |
Iran/USA |
Moir, David MacBeth |
1798-1851 |
Scotland |
Delta |
|
|
Monger, David |
1908-1972 |
Wales |
Mannigan, Peter |
|
|
Richards, Peter |
|
|
Moolten, David |
1961- |
USA |
Moore, Merrill |
1903-1957 |
USA |
Mori Rintaro |
1862-1922 |
Japan |
Mori Ogai |
|
|
Morrice, J.K.W. |
1924- |
Scotland |
Morrice, Ken |
|
|
Mulkeen, Thomas P. |
1923- |
USA |
Munthe, Axel |
1857-1949 |
Sweden |
Murphy, Arthur Lister |
1906- |
Canada |
Nasrin, Taslima |
1962- |
Bangladesh |
Nathanson, Laura Walther |
1941- |
USA |
Thorpe, J.K. |
|
|
Nemeth, Laszlo |
1901-1975 |
Hungary |
Nesvadba, Josef |
1926- |
Czechoslovakia |
Neto, Agostinho |
1922-1979 |
Angola |
Neuman, Fredric |
1934- |
USA |
Newbold, H.L. |
1921- |
USA |
Nicol, Abioseh |
1924- |
Sierra Leone |
Nordau, Max |
1849-1923 |
Hungary |
Norman, Robert A. |
1955- |
USA |
Nourse, Alan E. |
1928-1992 |
USA |
Doctor X |
|
|
Edwards, Al |
|
|
Nuland, Sherwin B. |
1930- |
USA |
Ober, William |
1920-1993 |
USA |
Offit, Avodah Komito |
1931- |
USA |
Okun, Lawrence E. |
1929- |
USA |
Olgin, Howard A. |
1939- |
USA |
O'Neill, John |
1956- |
USA |
Osler, Sir William |
1849-1920 |
Canada/USA |
Ostlere, Gordon |
1921- |
England |
Gordon, Richard |
|
|
Pacheco, Ferdie |
1927- |
USA |
Palmer, John Ransom |
1905-1948 |
USA |
Goldsborough, Robert |
|
|
Palmer, Michael |
1942- |
USA |
Panneton, Philippe |
1895-1962 |
Canada |
Ringuet |
|
|
Papadimitrakopoulos, Elias |
1930- |
Greece |
Parrish, John A. |
1939- |
USA |
Peacocke, James S. |
|
USA |
Peck, M.Scott |
1936- |
USA |
Penfield, Wilder |
1891-1976 |
Canada |
Penman, John |
1913- |
England |
Percival, James Gates |
1795-1856 |
USA |
Percy, Walker |
1916-1990 |
USA |
Perry, Grace |
1927-1987 |
Australia |
Peters, Lenrie |
1932- |
Gambia |
Pieczenik, Steve |
1943- |
USA |
Pies, Ronald |
1952- |
USA |
Polidori, J.W. |
1795-1821 |
England |
Powell, Craig |
1940- |
Australia |
Rabelais, Francois |
1483-1553 |
France |
Ravin, Neil |
1947- |
USA |
Redi, Francesco |
1626-1697 |
Italy |
Reiter, B.P. |
1945- |
USA |
Rizal, Jose |
1861-1896 |
Philippines |
Roe, Francis |
1932- |
England/USA |
Rogers, Peter Damien |
1942- |
USA |
Reilly, Patrick D. |
|
|
Rosa, Joao Guimaraes |
1908-1967 |
Brazil |
Rosenbaum, Jean |
1927- |
USA |
Rosenberg, Stephen N. |
1941- |
USA |
Ross, Sir Ronald |
1857-1932 |
England |
Rowland, Henry |
1874-1933 |
USA |
Rubin, Theodore Isaac |
1923- |
USA |
Ruotolo, Andrew K. |
1926-1979 |
USA |
Ruskin, Ronald |
1944- |
Canada |
Sacks, Oliver |
1933- |
England/USA |
Saga, Junichi |
1941- |
Japan |
Sa'idi, Ghulam Husayn |
1936-1985 |
Iran |
Saito, Mokichi |
1882-1953 |
Japan |
Sakabe, Yoshio |
1924- |
Japan |
Sams, Ferrol |
1922- |
USA |
Savage, T.J. |
1855-1929 |
USA |
Scannell, Kate |
1953- |
USA |
Scheffler, Johannes |
1624-1677 |
Germany |
Silesius, Angelus |
|
|
Schiedermayer, David L. |
1955- |
USA |
Schiller, Friedrich von |
1759-1805 |
Germany |
Schmidt, Werner Felix |
1923- |
USA |
Schneiderman, L.J. |
1932- |
USA |
Schnitzler, Arthur |
1862-1931 |
Austria |
Schwarz, Liese O'Halloran |
1963- |
USA |
Scliar, Moacyr |
1937- |
Brazil |
Seddon, Andrew M. |
1959- |
England/USA |
Segalen, Victor |
1878-1919 |
France |
Selzer, Richard |
1928- |
USA |
Sheley, Glenn E. |
1911- |
USA |
Shem, Samuel |
1944- |
USA |
Sherrington, Sir Charles |
1861-1952 |
England |
Shiff, Nathan |
1914- |
USA |
Shlian, Deborah |
|
|
Shobin, David |
1945- |
USA |
Shore, Henry |
1912-1977 |
England |
Shubert, J. Lansing |
1956- |
USA |
Shulman, Neil |
1945- |
USA |
Siegel, Marc |
|
USA |
Sigerson, George |
1838-1925 |
Ireland |
Silverman, Gerry |
1938- |
England |
Simmons, Earl M. |
|
USA |
Simmons, Geoffrey |
1943- |
USA |
Sinclair, Alison |
1959- |
England/Canada |
Slaughter, Frank |
1908- |
USA |
Terry, C.V. |
|
|
Shlian, Deborah |
1948 |
USA |
Jessup, Kathryn |
|
|
Smollett, Tobias |
1721-1771 |
Scotland |
Snodgrass, Steven |
1957- |
USA |
Sobel, Irwin Philip |
1901-1991 |
USA |
Starkey, William |
1836-1918 |
Ireland |
Stein, Michael |
1960- |
USA |
Stern, Karl |
1906-1975 |
Germany/Canada |
Stollman, Aryeh |
1954- |
USA |
Stone, John |
1936- |
USA |
Strasburger, Victor C. |
1949- |
USA |
Straus, Marc J. |
1943- |
USA |
Strobos, Robert Julius |
1921- |
USA |
Suyin, Han |
1917- |
China |
Thomas, Lewis |
1913-1993 |
USA |
Ticknor, Francis Orray |
1822-1874 |
USA |
Todhunter, John |
1839-1916 |
Ireland |
Tschernichowsky, Saul |
1875-1943 |
Russia |
Tsypkin, Leonid |
1926-1982 |
Russia |
Turnbull, Gael |
1928- |
England |
Tushnet, Leonard |
1908-1973 |
USA |
Vaughan, Henry |
1622-1695 |
Wales |
Verghese, Abraham |
1955- |
Ethiopia/USA |
Vivante, Arturo |
1923- |
Italy/USA |
Wagner, Karl Edward |
1945-1994 |
USA |
Walton, George |
1887-1963 |
Canada |
Watson, Edward Willard |
1843-1925 |
USA |
Weeder, Richard S. |
1936- |
USA |
Weiner, Howard L. |
1944- |
USA |
Weiss, Ernst |
1882-1940 |
Austria |
Weissmann, Gerald |
1930- |
Austria/USA |
Wheelis, Allen B. |
1915- |
USA |
Wheldon, David |
1950- |
England |
Whitaker, Phil |
1966- |
England |
Wiggins, Christopher E. |
1946- |
USA |
Wigglesworth, Michael |
1631-1675 |
USA |
Williams, William Carlos |
1883-1963 |
USA |
Willocks, Timothy |
1957- |
England |
Wilson, F. Paul |
1946- |
USA |
Wilson, Hunter |
1927- |
USA |
Wilson, John Rowan |
1919- |
England |
Wolcott, Jon |
1738-1819 |
England |
Pindar, Peter |
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Wolff, Charlotte |
1904- |
Germany/England |
Wright, Charles H. |
1918- |
USA |
Yalom, Irvin D. |
1931- |
USA |
Yanovsky, V.S. |
1906-1989 |
Russia/USA |
Yanovsky, Basile S. |
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Young, C. Dale |
1969- |
Caribbean/USA |
Young, Francis Brett |
1884-1954 |
England |
Young, George |
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USA |
Zack, Michael Baruch |
1943- |
USA |
Zaffran, Marc |
1955- |
France |
Winkler, Martin |
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Zinsser, Hans |
1878-1940 |
USA |
Zuelzer, Wolf W. |
1909-1987 |
USA/Germany |
Roster last updated 10/15/2002
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like to thank Suzanne Poirier, Ph.D., Professor of Literature and
Medical Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago; and editor of
Literature and Medicine.
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