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cord-012469-6cvu5umd	Lewis, Jayne	Speaking with Frankenstein	2020-08-21		.txt	text/plain	8505	414	54	As a professor of literature and a professor of medicine, we are especially interested in what it might mean to "speak with" Victor Frankenstein and his Creature because this process can provide creative insight into the relationships that develop between modern-day physicians and the patients incorporates distance and disappointment as well as recognition and rehabilitation, unresolved fear as well as pragmatic hope. In treating Victor "as if" he were the medical doctor he is training to become and the Creature his perceived difficult patient, we do not place Shelley's novel in a cultural history of medicine that it might be seen to allegorize. Speaking with Victor's failure helps us imagine physicians who, instead of mirroring societal fears of decay and death, find the courage to stand with the patients they have helped to birth into a new life story. At the very least, we sense in Victor's evasion of responsibility new openings to speak about the ethical relationship between physicians and patients.	./cache/cord-012469-6cvu5umd.txt	./txt/cord-012469-6cvu5umd.txt