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List of fictional doctors

This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.

Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603)[1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s[2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors".[3] Solomon Posen had collected a list of books with "a doctors as a principal figure" which he says resulted in a list of over 10,000 works as of 2005.[4]

Early cinematic and television representations of doctors typically characterized the practice of medicine as being "in safe (male) hands,"[5] with 90% of doctors on television through 1989 being male.[6]

  1. ^ The doctor in history, literature, folk-lore, etc edited by William Andrews p.9
  2. ^ "The Popular Science Monthly". 1884.
  3. ^ Doctor and patient By Silas Weir Mitchell p.81
  4. ^ Doctors in fiction: lessons from literature By Borys Surawicz, Beverly Jacobson
  5. ^ Frames and fictions on television: the politics of identity within drama By Bruce Carson, Margaret Llewellyn-Jones p. 51
  6. ^ The psychology of television John C. Condry p. 76