http://www.politedissent.com/archives/133 a blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:50:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.politedissent.com/archives/133/comment-page-1#comment-721952 David Spencer Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:57:46 +0000 http://politedissent.com/archives/133#comment-721952 Epilepsy seems to have been a hotpoint for medical stories about shame and stigma in the early 60s. It will amuse you to know, in the first of Lancer Books' BEN CASEY tie-in novels -- that one simply titled BEN CASEY, written by the woefully under-appreciated William Johnston -- the irascible Doctor's patient is a woman likewise coming to grips with her "awful secret" revealed after a car crash. Though the story development is much less silly than the one you so succinctly summarized from the Dell comic. (Btw, there were four CASEY novels in all, and if you're interested, you can get them via abebooks.com and similar used/antiquarian book sites. The others are: A RAGE FOR JUSTICE by Norman Daniels, THE STRENGTH OF HIS HANDS by Sam Elkin and THE FIRE WITHIN again by Daniels. The cover price of each is 40¢.) Epilepsy seems to have been a hotpoint for medical stories about shame and stigma in the early 60s. It will amuse you to know, in the first of Lancer Books’ BEN CASEY tie-in novels — that one simply titled BEN CASEY, written by the woefully under-appreciated William Johnston — the irascible Doctor’s patient is a woman likewise coming to grips with her “awful secret” revealed after a car crash. Though the story development is much less silly than the one you so succinctly summarized from the Dell comic. (Btw, there were four CASEY novels in all, and if you’re interested, you can get them via abebooks.com and similar used/antiquarian book sites. The others are: A RAGE FOR JUSTICE by Norman Daniels, THE STRENGTH OF HIS HANDS by Sam Elkin and THE FIRE WITHIN again by Daniels. The cover price of each is 40¢.)

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