Portrayals of Medicine, Physicians, Patients, and Illnesses in French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present : A Collection of Essays

This collection of essays examines the various representations of medicine in French Literature, from the Middle Ages to the present.

It addresses questions of how we have developed, authorized and dealt with the concept of being studied and treated as scientific subjects.

This study also investigates how we negotiate being patients, doctors, and spectators in defining the concept and the field of medicine.