Literature and Medicine I

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Notes

• 1) Cf. the novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Doctor Zay (1882), Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor (1884), Annie Nathan Meyer, Helen Brent, M.D. (1891). The same is not true for women doctors in novels written by men, as in William Dean Howells’s Dr. Breen’s Practice (1881) or Henry James’s The Bostonians (1886). Cf. also Masteller.