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Arthur Conan Doyle as Doctor and Writer.

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From: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Date: 20001201
Author:KRASNER, JAMES

Medical ethicists have recently addressed the use of storytelling in medical practice. This essay examines the medical and detective fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor turned writer, to demonstrate the value of a narrative approach to engagements between doctor and patient.

Current discussions of medical ethics that focus on the communication between doctor and patient attend to the use of narratives in medical practice. Kathryn Montgomery Hunter advocates a literary critical model for doctor-patient interaction, arguing that attention to narrative power dynamics will ...

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