Physician Writers: Anton Chekhov

Physician writers: Anton Chekhov.

Pursuing medicine means to a large extent pursuing medical science. A medical career also includes a substantial amount of writing, particularly for those who enter academia. Apart from science, during their professional lifetimes medical people are exposed to thousands of life stories, into which they, by necessity, intrude. Dealing with individual illnesses, and thus patients’ bodies, brings ...

Physician-writers in the age of blogging.

Mania Sakhalinosa: an episode in the life of Dr. Anton Chekhov.

ALTHOUGH CHEKHov is universally acknowledged as a short story writer and dramatist of genius, the fact that he was a practising doctor for a large part of his life and was deeply committed to the progress of scientific medicine is often forgotten. An attentive reader of the stories, however, must be aware how often patients and their doctors are portrayed therein. At times the conflicting claim...

the shadow of anton chekhov on contemporary dramatic literature of iran (on the basis of plays written by anton chekhov and akbar radi)

anton pavlovich chekhov is a russian writer and playwright with considerable contribution in the expansion of world literature including iran. many theater critics and directors believe that akbar radi was influenced by anton chekhov's works, and by using chekhov's achievements and expanding them he has written his own unique and noble plays. this study investigates general properties...

Anton Andersson

Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting practices across social class, gender, immigrant background, and geographic location. While greeting practices in the sample are fairly uniform, there are also important differences. Handshaking is predominantly used by respondents with an immigrant backgro...