Entitled: "Le Docteur Double-ose" ("Doctor Doubledose"), a physician is taking the pulse of an old woman sitting in a chair; he is also kissing the hand of the old woman's daughter who is standing behind the chair. Color lithograph by Caroline Naudet, 1820. Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.