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Your friendly neighborhood neurologist: Dr. Oliver Sacks and the cultural view of physicians

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Oliver Sacks focuses more on patients rather than physicians in his fiction. In glorifying his patients, however, Sacks does not deviate from the conventional treatment of doctors by other fiction writers as maintaining all power and authority. Sacks tries to capture modern-day physicians' concern with bio-ethics and the generational shift of authority but fails in his effort. Essentially, distant objectivity and complete authority still govern the medical profession.

Patients, Sacks, Oliver

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Sex as a literary theme: is Whitman the good, gay poet?

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Walt Whitman's literary works were examined to elucidate his attitude toward sexuality. Passages from his poems affirm Sigmund Freud's formulation that man is bisexual by nature and can assume a wide array of sexual orientations. Although Whitman may have used sex as a literary subject, his works should not be analyzed only in terms of homoeroticism for this diminishes his literary contributions and his more profound perception of sex.

Sex (Psychology), Sexuality, Gay literature

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Without valid restraints: the figure of Walt Whitman in "Old Doc Rivers."

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William Carlos Williams' 'Old Doc River,' depicts the relationship between a young doctor and his charismatic teacher. The story shows that the misery of the charismatic teacher, Rivers, is caused by his alienation in the medical community. The young doctor, Doc, tells about Rivers' dilemma and tries to convince readers how he has avoided unrestrained egotism. Williams' fiction is greatly influenced by Walt Whitman's poetry.

Poets, Williams, William Carlos

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