Abstract
Both Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith (1925) and Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins (1971) offer valuable treatments, of American medical history for students of medical education. Arrowsmith, relying upon the newly-won techniques of realism, offers a satiric view of the physician who is corrupted by the middle-class values of America in the Twenties, but a very positive view of the newly-emerging discipline of medical research. Love in the Ruins, relying upon such anti-realistic techniques as burlesque and the absurd, offers a satiric view of the physician who becomes obsessed with a philosophy of medical research that denies the basic humanity of its subject matter.
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