"Medicine in Literature" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Written or other literary works whose subject matter is medical or about the profession of medicine and related areas.
| Descriptor ID |
D008513
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.517.584
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medicine in Literature" by people in Profiles.
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Medicine and the arts. Shared truth by John R. Freedy. Commentary. Acad Med. 2015 Feb; 90(2):174-5.
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in literature: Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Prog Brain Res. 2013; 206:219-28.
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A lost decade: exploring F Scott Fitzgerald's contribution to the illness canon through the doctor-nurse series and other healthcare stories of the 1930s. Med Humanit. 2012 Dec; 38(2):83-7.
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Always the same story: familiar narrative structures in Oliver Sacks and Nancy Mairs. Fam Med. 2010 Feb; 42(2):97-9.
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There is nothin' like a Dame. Hepatology. 2002 Apr; 35(4):983-5.