MEDICINE, RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND LITERATURE
MEDICINE, RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: This article is aimed at analyzing medical and literary work of two personalities of Romanian medicine. What characterizes Victor Papilian’s writing and could integrate him into the Christian values is his thirst for deeper knowledge, beyond the tangible and objective reality whose way was open by the chosen way: science. Diversified literary contrast is based on a deeply intellectualist structure of the author. Exaggerated didacticism, the physician-literate proved sometimes, was often criticized for its character “fundamentally hybrid, with an confused ideology, without glare.”1 But what exegetes reproach the anatomist is the excess of erudition which floods at times the literary page. On the other hand, like most medical figures of the time, Gr. T. Popa was a convinced nationalist with a strong moral structure and a mixed personality fighting for social justice.

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