Medicine and Literature: The Doctor's Companion to the Classics

ISBN-13: 9781857755350 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 96 str.

John Salinsky

Opis

Here are 120 multiple choice questions on family planning and reproductive health care. Each question has been carefully selected to reflect the syllabus of the new Part 1 examination for Membership of the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare (MFFP). Almost all the questions are accompanied by an extented answer. In this way as well as providing a useful revision aid for examinations the book is also educationally stimulating for anyone wishing to improve and test their knowledge of family planning and reproductive healthcare. The questions have been divided in three major sections: Applied Sciences; Contraception; and Reproductive Healthcare. This book will be an ideal training and revision tool for candidates for the professional exams such as the new MFFP as well as the MRCOG and MRCGP. It will also provide a useful aid to anyone who wishes to update their understanding of these important topics in reproductive medicine.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Why should doctors read the classics 2. A Country Doctor a short story by Franz Kafka 3. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 4. Anna Karen by Lev Tolstoy 5. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Jane Bronte 7. Ulysses by James Joyce 8. Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway 9. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 10. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 11. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 12. The sonnets of William Shakespeare and John Donne 13. A Country Doctor's Notebook and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 14. Middlemarch by George Eliot 15. If on a Winter's Night, a Traveller by Italo Calvino 16. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 17. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 18. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 19. Serving suggestions for teachers

O autorze

Dr. John Salinsky is a General Practioner in Wembley, Middlesex and Course Organiser at the Whittington Vocational Training Scheme for General Practice.