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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Medicine and literature."”.
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Empathy and Compassion in the Medicine and Literature of the First and Second Centuries AD
… dissertation examines the emotions of empathy and compassion in the first and second centuries AD of the Greco-Roman world. It focuses on the medical texts of the period, but also explores the other genres of the ancient Greek novel and moral philosophy. Despite lacking a specific word for it, …
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Physician, heal thyself: Desire and impairment in physicians' Writings
Traditionally medicine and literature have lain on opposite ends of the spectrum, but for some physicians, writing is complementary to medicine. I examine selected works of physician-writers that express the difficulties and triumphs of their journeys through their medical career. Through …
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Embodied Experiences of Caregiving: Literature as a Lens for the Health Humanities
In an age where rates of burnout and compassion fatigue are soaring, interrupting the throughline of care, both patients and caregivers alike are falling through the cracks. These bodies and persons, each of them both giving and receiving care, point to the critical need to understand the human …
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AMBIGUOUS BODIES: GENDER NON-CONFORMITY AND BODILY TRANSFORMATION IN EARLY MODERN ITALIAN ART
… change, transforming from conforming men and women into ambiguous or gender-fluid entities. However, the alterations to these figures’ forms did not relegate them to the period’s third category of gender, the hermaphrodite. Rather, they entered into liminal spaces between the defined …
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century novels.
… Dracula, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie—join then-contemporary conversations about medical reform. The novels explore the ethical ambiguities inherent in medical practice in the nineteenth century and question the nature of medical authority. In …