The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs;
- Publisher's listprice GBP 70.00
-
33 442 Ft (31 850 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 3 344 Ft off)
- Discounted price 30 098 Ft (28 665 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
33 442 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 April 2025
- ISBN 9780198893790
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 242x161x15 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English 606
Categories
Short description:
This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medical encounter.
MoreLong description:
The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the nineteenth-century French novel, notably in the words of Balzac, Sand, Stendhal, and Zola. It argues that the doctor-patient relationship is represented in these novels as a site of interpersonal negotiation wherein the meaning of medical authority, embodied experience, and the spectre of illness and pain are mediated and reimagined. This book highlights how the doctor-patient relationship is often idealized by the novel, wherein the doctor is characterised as a both dedicated to his patients and local community, as well as being a God-like master of life, death, and medical knowledge. The volume suggests that the doctor-patient encounter is often depicted as a separate, although inherently related, concept that undermines this idealisation of medical relationships. The doctor-patient encounter thereby questions the hegemonic power of medical practitioners over their patients by pointing towards how novels depict patients as resisting and even manipulating their doctors. The book identifies and explores other important themes within the doctor-patient relationship such as the medical gaze (regard m
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Note on translations
Introduction: Literary Medical Relationships and Encounters
Failed Ideals: The Country Doctor and his Patients from Balzac to Zola
Blood at the Bedside: Subverting the Medical Relationship in Stendhal
Medical Narratives and Diseased Bodies: Troubling Encounters in Sand and Balzac
Zola's Lourdes and the Mysteriousness of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Conclusion: Doctors and Patients: Into the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
