| The relationship between literature and medicine has generated great interest in the last forty years, both in terms of literature's use of the medical field to provide commentary on the human condition and the medical field's use of literature to better understand the human condition. This thesis will analyze the ways in which twentieth century authors Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, J.D. Salinger, and Joe Haldeman employed the motif of medicine and the medical field---specifically medical malpractice, misdiagnosis, and tragedy---to convey the themes of their respective literary movements and to reveal human concerns to those who would read their respective works for a better understanding of those concerns as they relate to the medical field. |
