Gollard R P
Nevada Cancer Center, Las Vegas, 89109, USA.
J Med Humanit. 1998 Spring;19(1):25-38. doi: 10.1023/a:1024983801221.
Raymond Chandler, the creator of legendary detective Philip Marlowe and the recipient of increasing literary admiration over the past 40 years, used numerous physicians as minor characters in his novels and short stories. The presence of physicians as minor characters in Chandler's work, though unnoticed by previous critics, is illustrative both of the writer's personal antipathy towards medical doctors and larger societal forces which left medical charlatans free to open "clinics." Chandler's own chronic health problems and those of his wife Cissy may have contributed to the writer's negative attitude toward medicine and health care, though little is known of Chandler's personal interactions with physicians prior to his death in 1959.
雷蒙德·钱德勒塑造了传奇侦探菲利普·马洛，在过去40年里越来越受到文学界的推崇。他在自己的长篇和短篇小说中，将众多医生塑造为小角色。钱德勒作品中的医生小角色虽此前未被评论家注意到，但既体现了作者个人对医生的反感，也反映了当时的社会大环境，正是这种环境让江湖郎中得以自由开设“诊所”。钱德勒自己长期的健康问题以及他妻子西茜的健康问题，可能促使作者对医学和医疗保健持负面态度，不过在1959年钱德勒去世之前，关于他与医生的个人交往鲜为人知。
