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Document Details : Title: Les malades imaginés Subtitle: Diseases in fiction Author(s): KRÉMER, René Journal: Acta Cardiologica Volume: 58 Issue: 4 Date: August 2003 Pages: 349-354 DOI: 10.2143/AC.58.4.2005293 Abstract : Writers often introduce into fiction works characters who suffer from one disease or another. The purpose of this literary finesse is to enrich the intrigue or to create a favourable environment for the observation of a group of human beings. The introduction of the sick person sometimes offers a chance to warn against venereal diseases or alcoholism or an opportunity to critize medicine and doctors. The writers more exceptionally express visionary views on the future of medicine. This paper selects a few interesting examples of “imagined diseases”. |