Round the red lamp : being facts and fancies of medical life / edited by Arthur Conan Doyle and Roger Luckhurst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conan Doyle, Arthur, author.

Contributor:

Luckhurst, Roger, editor.

Series:

The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--Fiction.

Physicians.

Medical fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

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 Lampis a vital collection in understanding Conan Doyle's shift of profession from medic to author.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

General Editor's Preface

Acknowledgements

A Chronology of the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

Introduction

Genesis and Composition

Publication History

Reception

Medical Context

Literary Doctoring

The Realism versus Romance Debate

Round the Red Lamp

The Preface

Behind the Times

His First Operation

A Straggler of '15

The Third Generation

A False Start

The Curse of Eve

Sweethearts

A Physiologist's Wife

The Case of Lady Sannox

A Question of Diplomacy

A Medical Document

Lot No. 249

The Los Amigos Fiasco

The Doctors of Hoyland

The Surgeon Talks

An Essay on the Text

Appendices

1 Additional Stories added to the Crowborough Edition

'Crabbe's Practice' (1884)

'My Friend the Murderer' (1882)

2 Preface to the Author's Edition (1903)

3 One-Act Play Adaptations

Foreign Policy (1893)

Waterloo (1894)

4 Conan Doyle's Essays and Letters in the Medical Press

'Gelseminum as a Poison' (1879)

'Notes on a Case of Leucocythaemia' (1882)

'Life and Death in the Blood' (1883)

'The Contagious Diseases Act' (1883)

'American Medical Diplomas' (1884)

'The Remote Effects of Gout' (1884)

'Compulsory Vaccination' (1887)

'The Consumption Cure' (1890)

'Dr Koch and His Cure' (1890)

Apparatus

Abbreviations used in the Apparatus

Emendations and Variations

Explanatory Notes.

Other Format:

Print version: Conan Doyle, Arthur Round the Red Lamp

ISBN:

9781399519199 (electronic book)