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  • Captain Tilney’s subsequent actions suggest that he is not much better than a Gothic villain, Henry once again intervenes by proposing to Catherine anyway, locating the

    Notes on 'Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper' 2006

  • As the patient's new kidney started working a few days later, Dr. Tilney "became a believer" in the power of transplants to save lives.

    Gowns, Germs and Steel William Bynum 2011

  • For me, General Tilney in Northanger Abbey has more depth and humanity than he really possesses, because one feels that he is a first sketch of Sir Walter Elliot.

    The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño – review Philip Hensher 2010

  • Affirming that health care is a right, Dr. Tilney concludes that "The marketplace may not be an appropriate venue for the social mission of medicine."

    Gowns, Germs and Steel William Bynum 2011

  • Cushing operated without diagnostic aids such as CAT scans, but as Dr. Tilney beautifully shows, surgeons nowadays rarely open a body without a pretty good idea of what they will find, so precise are preoperative imaging techniques and the battery of blood tests patients routinely undergo.

    Gowns, Germs and Steel William Bynum 2011

  • Dr. Tilney is concerned, as every American citizen ought to be, with the chaotic state of American health care.

    Gowns, Germs and Steel William Bynum 2011

  • Dr. Tilney freely admits that a few surgeons fight this encroachment by doing unnecessary and lucrative operations.

    Gowns, Germs and Steel William Bynum 2011

  • Dr. Tilney analyses the changes wrought in surgical practice by advances like "keyhole" surgery, in which instruments are threaded through an extremely small incision.

    Gowns, Germs and Steel William Bynum 2011

  • Dr. Tilney provides full accounts of both the science and practice of cardiac and transplant surgery, with their backgrounds in basic immunology and the technology of the heart-lung machine.

    Gowns, Germs and Steel William Bynum 2011

  • According to Southey in a letter of early September 1794, the plan at that time was to publish the play under the pseudonym "Lecoridge of both Universities" (Tilney 150).

    Annotations 2007

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