Research Catalog

Title

Return to The house of God : medical resident education, 1978-2008 / edited by Martin Kohn & Carol Donley.

Publication

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kohn, Martin.
• Donley, Carol C.

Description

xv, 241 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Literature and medicine ; 15

Uniform Title

Literature and medicine (Kent, Ohio) ; 15.

Subjects

• Shem, Samuel > House of God
• Shem, Samuel > Influence
• United States
• Residents (Medicine) > United States
• Literature and medicine > United States > History > 20th century
• Internship and Residency

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Martin Kohn and Carol Donley -- The Birth of The House of God / Denis Noble -- Residency Education in Historical Perspective -- Houses of God before Shem: Boston City and the Thorndike at Bellevue / Gerald Weissmann -- Residency Education since The House of God / Kenneth M. Ludmerer -- From The House of God to the House of Siemens: Bedside Skills Thirty Years Later / Sarah Lapey, Judy McCarter and Abraham Verghese -- The Godless Kingdom: Medical Education in France, 1973-2008 / Marc Zaffran -- Justice, Virtue, and the Laws of The House of God -- Justice and Humor in The House of God / Martha Elks and Isaac M. T. Mwase -- Wearing the Ring of Gyges in the House of God / Julie M. Aultman -- The Laws of the House of God Revisited: or, Sneaking Primary Care into Man's Greatest Hospital / Howard Brody -- Literary Perspectives and Criticism -- Mayhem at the Hospital / John Updike -- Imagining the House of God / Jack Coulehan -- Writing the Medical Training Experience in 1978 and 2006: Body Language in The House of God / Stephanie Brown Clark, Neeta Jain and Dagan Coppock -- The Popocatepetl of Medicine / Arko Oderwald -- Women's Perspectives and Criticism -- Objects, Not Allies: Nurses in The House of God and Graduate Medical Education / Amy Haddad -- "Fiction as Resistance": The Fat Man and the Woman Reader / Anne Hudson Jones -- The Madwoman in the Attic / Susan Onthank Mates -- Rereadings -- Chasing Fire Engines / Cortney Davis -- Speaking the Unspeakable / Jay Baruch -- Shem Redux: Is It Time? / Steven Hyman -- The House of God Redux / Thomas Duffy -- You Gotta Know the Territory: The House of God as Job Description / Perri Klass -- Attending in the House of God / Abigail Zuger -- Comments from the House of Shem -- Living with Shem: Reflections on the Journey of a Writer-Healer / Janet Surrey -- Resistance and Healing / Samuel Shem and Stephen Bergman.

ISBN

• 9780873389839 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0873389832 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780873389457 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 087338945X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008021131

OCLC

• ocn228427306
• 228427306
• SCSB-5441636

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries