Medicine in Literature
"Medicine in Literature" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Written or other literary works whose subject matter is medical or about the profession of medicine and related areas.
| Descriptor ID |
D008513
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.517.584
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medicine in Literature" by people in Profiles.
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Montello MM, Lantos JD. The Karamazov complex: Dostoevsky and DNR orders. Perspect Biol Med. 2002; 45(2):190-9.
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Lantos J. Open heart [Shiva M'Hodu]. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2000 Sep; 913:41-51.