Journal article
Zola's fortunate man: Rereading Le Docteur Pascal as a country doctor
- Abstract:
- This article rereads Emile Zola's Le Docteur Pascal (1893) from a critical Medical Humanities perspective to highlight the eponymous doctor's entanglement with medical practice, thus offering an innovative interpretation of one of Zola's most maligned novels. Drawing on John Berger's trope of the country doctor, described in A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (1967), this article foregrounds, firstly, Pascal's confrontation with his professional inadequacy; and, secondly, the inequality inherent in the doctor-patient relationship. At the same time as demonstrating the value of applying conceptual approaches derived from the critical Medical Humanities to literary studies, my analysis of the doctor-patient relationship in a rural context is of critical interest to the current development of the Medical Humanities.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- University of Western Australia
- Journal:
- Essays in French Literature and Culture More from this journal
- Volume:
- 58
- Pages:
- 51-68
- Publication date:
- 2021-10-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-06-15
- ISSN:
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1835-7040
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1230303
- Local pid:
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pubs:1230303
- Deposit date:
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2022-01-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Sarah Jones
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © The Authors 2021. This is an open access article under a Creative Commons license.
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