The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

by Sarah Jones

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198893795
• ISBN13: 9780198893790
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages