Teaching Literature and Medicine Eliza Farnham Self-Control is here to teach

Self-Control is here to teach you

When both she and her writing fell out of favor after the Harlem Renaissance

The contributors are drawn from an international range of health and social care settings

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Teaching Literature and Medicine Eliza Farnham Self-Control is here to teachBoth the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Kafka's fiction or childbed fever in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to disease in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or in Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska; from the stories of Anton Chekhov and of William Carlos Williams, both doctors, to the poetry of nurses derived from their contrasting experiences. These are