Few opera buffs stop to consider how the illnesses suffered by opera's great heroes and
heroines mirrored the medical treatments and public attitudes of their time. A Toronto …

A systematic search in theatrical reference books yielded 40 operas from three centuries in
which physicians appear on stage (see table on bmj. com). I selected several operas as …

A recent article in Smithsonian magazine described the infrastructure and operation of the
Colosseum in ancient Rome, as well as the nature of the entertainment furnished in the …

The Lion's Face is an opera about Alzheimer's disease, with music by the Russian composer
Elena Langer, a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and London's Royal …

Augusto and Michaela Odone (Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon) resolve to learn all they can
about their son's illness. Lorenzo's Oil provides a case worth examining not only for its own …

The goal of this research was to analyze the opera repertoire in terms of contents of
physician roles. An additional goal was to pinpoint significant characters and passages that …

There is an increasing interest in using poems and novels as a powerful resource to teach
medical students ethical and professional behavior, virtues, and to illustrate the complexity …

699 Vol. 37, No. 10 Literature and the Arts in Family Medicine entertain dual perspectives—
of a fearful patient and of a doctor afraid to deliver bad news. Poetry's use of metaphor and …

What, if any, connection exists between medicine and music? Of course, there are
differences, with medicine being part science and part humanities, while music is almost …

Why novels and poems in our medical schools? I am hardly in a position to be objective
about that question. I went into medicine, I think it fair to say, out of an enormous respect for …