Fiction as resistance : Samuel Shem's writings /
Samuel Shem is the nom de plume of the psychiatrist Stephen J. Bergman, one of the country’s leading contemporary psychiatrist-novelists. A graduate of Harvard and Harvard Medical School, Bergman (Shem) earned his PhD as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard for ove...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bradford, UK :
Ethics International Press,
2024.
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| Summary: | Samuel Shem is the nom de plume of the psychiatrist Stephen J. Bergman, one of the country’s leading contemporary psychiatrist-novelists. A graduate of Harvard and Harvard Medical School, Bergman (Shem) earned his PhD as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard for over thirty years. His first novel, The House of God (1978), was called by the British medical journal The Lancet “one of the two most important American medical novels of the twentieth century.” The House of God is the first of what Shem calls the Healing Quartet, which includes Mount Misery (1997), Man’s 4th Best Hospital (2019) and Our Hospital (2023). The Healing Quartet affirms the importance of physicians remaining human in medicine, a signature Shem theme, that unifies his fictional and nonfictional writings. Shem is a relentless critic of the medical establishment, offering an insider’s critique of hospital administrators and physicians who place profits above patients’ welfare. Fiction as Resistance will appeal to readers interested in the medical humanities, a growing interdisciplinary movement connecting literature, the arts and culture as they relate to healthcare. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxv, 225 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-206) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1804419532 9781804419533 |