Medicine and Science Biographical Books
Medicine and Science Biographical Books lists books about Arthur Conan Doyle's medical training, medical career, scientific interests, and the medical figures or discoveries connected with his life. These works examine Conan Doyle as a doctor, medical observer, and man shaped by nineteenth-century scientific culture, rather than only as the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
The books are listed in reverse chronological order.
Books about Conan Doyle and Medicine
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
By Thomas Goetz
Avery
2014
320 pages
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The Remedy is a historical study of Robert Koch's search for a cure for tuberculosis and Arthur Conan Doyle's role as a medical observer and critic of Koch's claims. The book places Conan Doyle within the world of late nineteenth-century medicine, bacteriology, scientific hope, and medical controversy, showing how his medical training shaped his response to one of the great public health questions of the age.
Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell
By Alan Mackaill & Dawn Kemp
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
2007
98 pages
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Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell studies the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Joseph Bell, the Edinburgh surgeon whose methods of observation and deduction are often associated with the origins of Sherlock Holmes. The book belongs here because it focuses on Conan Doyle's medical education, his Edinburgh background, and the influence of medical diagnosis on his later literary imagination.
Conan Doyle's Tales of Medical Humanism and Values: Round the Red Lamp, Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life, with Other Medical Short Stories
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited with introduction, commentaries and notes by Alvin E. Rodin & Jack D. Key
Krieger Publishing Co.
1992
482 pages
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Conan Doyle's Tales of Medical Humanism and Values is an annotated medical edition of Conan Doyle's Round the Red Lamp, supplemented with six additional medical short stories and a 1910 address to medical students. Edited by Alvin E. Rodin and Jack D. Key, the volume studies Conan Doyle's medical imagination, his treatment of illness, doctors, patients and professional ethics, and the place of medicine in his fiction.
Lost Worlds in Time, Space and Medicine: The Science Fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle — An Illustrated Analysis and Discussion
By Alvin E. Rodin & Jack D. Key
McFarland & Co.
1988
100 pages
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Lost Worlds in Time, Space and Medicine is an illustrated study of Arthur Conan Doyle's science fiction, with particular attention to the scientific and medical ideas behind his speculative writings. Rodin and Key examine Conan Doyle's treatment of lost worlds, time, space, medicine, Professor Challenger, and the imaginative use of scientific concepts in his fiction.
Adventuring in England with Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle: Encounters with Sherlock Holmes, Disciples and Medicine
By Alvin E. Rodin & Jack D. Key
Key Rod Literary
1986
120 pages
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Adventuring in England with Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle follows Alvin E. Rodin and Jack D. Key's journey through places connected with Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and the author's medical background. The book combines travel, biographical investigation, Sherlockian encounters, and medical interest, and continues the authors' study of Conan Doyle as a physician and of the medical contexts surrounding his life and work.
Medical Casebook of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle
By Alvin E. Rodin & Jack D. Key
Robert E. Krieger
1984
506 pages
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Medical Casebook of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle is a biographical and medical study of Conan Doyle as a physician. Alvin E. Rodin and Jack D. Key examine his medical training, practice, professional experience, and the presence of medical knowledge in his life and writings.
Journal of A Quest for the Elusive Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle
By Alvin E. Rodin & Jack D. Key
Davies Printing
1982
60 pages
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Journal of A Quest for the Elusive Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle records Alvin E. Rodin and Jack D. Key's search for traces of Conan Doyle as a physician. Based on their travels and investigations in places connected with Conan Doyle's medical education, practice, and professional life. It's a biographical study of "Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle" and the medical background behind his career.
Works about Medicine by Conan Doyle himself
These works are not biographical studies, but primary writings by Conan Doyle himself. They are listed here because they document his medical training, medical observations, medical imagination, and public comments on medicine.
Fiction
Articles, letters and lectures
- Gelseminum as a Poison (1879)
- Notes on a Case of Leucocythaemia (1882)
- The Remote Effects of Gout (1884)
- The War in South Africa. The Epidemic of Enteric Fever at Bloemfontein (1900)
- The War in South Africa. The Medical Arrangements in Bloemfontein (1900)
- The Case of George Edalji: A Question for Ophtalmologists (1907)
- The Romance of Medicine (1910)
