Medical Storyworlds

Though often seen as scientific or objective, medicine has a fundamentally narrative aspect. Much like how an author constructs meaning around fictional events, a doctor or patient narrates the course of an illness and treatment. In what ways have literary and medical storytelling intersected with and shaped each other? In Medical Storyworlds , Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century—a period when novelists were experimenting wi