Round the Red Lamp : Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life PDF
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Roger Luckhurst
Part of the The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle series
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This is a scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's controversial collection of medical tales, first published in 1894 in the first flush of his fame. Conan Doyle had trained in medicine at Edinburgh University in the 1870s, and then spent eight years as a General Practitioner in Southsea, before deciding to become a professional author in 1890. The stories he collected in Round the Red Lamp are gathered from his medical training and incidents in his life as a provincial GP. Some of the stories are daring - dealing explicitly with child birth, sexually transmitted diseases and malpractice. Some are sentimental or comic vignettes. Some are Gothic horrors. On publication the shades of dark and light bewildered some of his readers and the medical realism outraged others. Round the Red Lamp is a vital collection in understanding Conan Doyle's shift of profession from medic to author.
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- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:29/05/2023
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:29/05/2023
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- ISBN:9781399519199
