The Citadel -- obra de 1937, a mais famosa do médico e escritor britânico que influenciou jovens do mundo inteiro a cursar medicina. Conta à história de um médico em início de carreira, honesto, mas ambicioso, tentando alcançar seus objetivos. Era médico como seu personagem Andrew e, por isso, o livro ensina bastante coisa sobre a medicina daquela época. Como no livro, os tuberculosos ainda hoje, infelizmente, carregam o estigma de portadores de uma doença contagiosa e são afastados da convivência social. |...|. ==== "A Cidadela" de A. J. Cronin & "Olhai os Lírios do Campo" de Erico Veríssimo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5lWS_zb6No ==== [Wikipedia] 'The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. For his fifth book, Dr. Cronin drew on his experiences practising medicine in the coal mining communities of the South Wales Valleys —as he had for The Stars Look Down two years earlier. Specifically, he had researched and reported on the correlation between coal dust inhalation and lung disease in the town of Tredegar. He had also worked as a doctor for the Tredegar Medical Aid Society at the Cottage Hospital, which served as the model for the National Health Service. Cronin once stated in an interview, "I have written in The Citadel all I feel about the medical profession, its injustices, its hide-bound unscientific stubbornness, its humbug ... The horrors and inequities detailed in the story I have personally witnessed. This is not an attack against individuals, but against a system." The novel was made into a 1938 film with Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson and Rex Harrison, and television versions include one American (1960), two British (1960 & 1983), and two Italian (1964 & 2003) adaptations of the novel.
