Two Conan Doyle Volumes: Tales of Medical Humanism and Values & Medical Casebook of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle

CONDITION: Flaws include some fading/scratches to the gilded page edges and possible minor tears/imperfections to the endpaper, the books are otherwise new.

Tales of Medical Humanism and Values: Round the Red Lamp
by Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle

This annotated reprint of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Round the Red Lamp, Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life, published in 1894, also contains commentary and notes for an additional six of Conan Doyle’s medical short stories as well as the text of an address which he presented to medical students in 1910. Included in these literary vignettes are three Sherlock Holmes stories that are primarily medical in orientation. These vital messages from almost one hundred years ago not only reinforce the present emerging trend of medical humanism, but also graphically portray the psychosocial effects of disease on the afflicted and the healer alike. The book is of interest to medical historians; physicians; students of medicine, allied health groups and medical humanities; and Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts.

Medical Casebook of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle: from Practitioner to Sherlock Holmes and Beyond by Alvin E. Rodin and Jack D. Key

In addition to recognition in literature, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle should be recognized for his work as a physician and for his medical concepts expressed in various publications. He was a diversified genius and this book endeavors to document his medical facet. Conan Doyle was the creator of a spectacularly popular series of crime-solving adventures involving exploits of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, in which medicine was inextricably entwined. He established himself as a versatile author with historical novels, short stories, volumes of poems, plays, histories, science fiction, and publications in occult science, as well as medicine.