Medicine in Literature
"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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| 2014 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medicine in Literature" by people in Profiles.
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Nussbaum AM. "I am the Author and Must Take Full Responsibility": Abraham Verghese, Physicians as the Storytellers of the Body, and the Renewal of Medicine. J Med Humanit. 2016 Dec; 37(4):389-399.
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Kletenik I. But Those Who Wait. Anesthesiology. 2015 Sep; 123(3):715-7.
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Nussbaum AM. Medicine and the arts. White noise: [excerpt] by Don DeLillo. Commentary. Acad Med. 2014 Sep; 89(9):1228-9.
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Stellpflug SJ, Cole JB, Lavonas EJ. The poison pen: How confident are we about iocane? J Med Toxicol. 2014 Jun; 10(2):249-50.
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Nussbaum AM. When the doctor is a gardener: Victoria Sweet, Hildegard of Bingen, and the genres of physician-writers. Lit Med. 2014; 32(2):325-47.
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Black IH. A boring Thanksgiving. Anesthesiology. 2012 Nov; 117(5):1135-6.