THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA:
PREFACE ON DOCTORS

By Bernard Shaw

1909


CONTENTS


[ DOUBTFUL CHARACTER BORNE BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ]

[ DOCTOR'S CONSCIENCES ]

[ THE PECULIAR PEOPLE ]

[ RECOIL OF THE DOGMA OF MEDICAL INFALLIBILITY ON THE DOCTOR ]

[ WHY DOCTORS DO NOT DIFFER ]

[ THE CRAZE FOR OPERATIONS ]

[ CREDULITY AND CHLOROFORM ]

[ MEDICAL POVERTY ]

[ THE SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR ]

[ THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF-RESPECT IN SURGEONS ]

[ ARE DOCTORS MEN OF SCIENCE? ]

[ BACTERIOLOGY AS A SUPERSTITION ]

[ ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES OF IMMUNIZATION ]

[ THE PERILS OF INOCULATION ]

[ DOCTORS AND VIVISECTION ]

[ THE PRIMITIVE SAVAGE MOTIVE ]

[ THE HIGHER MOTIVE. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. ]

[ THE FLAW IN THE ARGUMENT ]

[ LIMITATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE ]

[ A FALSE ALTERNATIVE ]

[ OUR OWN CRUELTIES ]

[ THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUELTY ]

[ ROUTINE ]

[ THE OLD LINE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST ]

[ VIVISECTING THE HUMAN SUBJECT ]

[ "THE LIE IS A EUROPEAN POWER" ]

[ AN ARGUMENT WHICH WOULD DEFEND ANY CRIME ]

[ THOU ART THE MAN ]

[ WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS AND WILL NOT GET ]

[ THE VACCINATION CRAZE ]

[ STATISTICAL ILLUSIONS ]

[ THE SURPRISES OF ATTENTION AND NEGLECT ]

[ STEALING CREDIT FROM CIVILIZATION ]

[ BIOMETRIKA ]

[ PATIENT-MADE THERAPEUTICS ]

[ THE REFORMS ALSO COME FROM THE LAITY ]

[ FASHIONS AND EPIDEMICS ]

[ THE DOCTOR'S VIRTUES ]

[ THE DOCTOR'S HARDSHIPS ]

[ THE PUBLIC DOCTOR ]

[ MEDICAL ORGANIZATION ]

[ THE SOCIAL SOLUTION OF THE MEDICAL PROBLEM ]

[ THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE ]

[ THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM ]

[ THE LATEST THEORIES ]