title: RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND NARRATIVE MEDICINE
abstract: Professional doctors who became writers have been contributing greatly to the formation and development of Russian literature for more than two hundred years. The works of art created by doctors bore the imprint of a professional view of the body and soul of a human being, saturated the texts with medical realities and terms, which gave reason to talk about the medical text in Russian literature. At the same time, the erudition of doctors and scientists allowed them to use examples from fiction 
journal: Culture and Text