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Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature / Mahala Yates Stripling.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stripling, Mahala Yates, author.
Series:
Pedagogy in medical humanities.
Pedagogy in medical humanities
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medicine in literature.
Fiction.
Bioethics.
Bioethical Issues.
Medicine in Literature.
Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Medical Subjects:
Bioethical Issues.
Medicine in Literature.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (174 pages).
Edition:
Abridged paperback edition.
Place of Publication:
San Francisco, CA : University of California Medical Humanities Press, 2013.
Contents:
Preface
Chronology of events in literature, medicine, and science
1. Technology's creature: an analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"
2. A Brave New World: an analysis of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Robin Cook's Coma
3. Contagions/isolations: an analysis of Albert Camus' The Plague and David Fedlshuh's Miss Evers' Boys
4. Illness and culture: an analysis of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy
5. End of Life- disease and death: an analysis of John Updike's Rabbit at Rest and Margaret Edson's Wit
Glossary of terms: literary, medical, and scientific
Index.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
Abridgement of: Bioethics and medical issues in literature / Mahala Yates Stripling. 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-9889865-2-3
OCLC:
1453284331
Access Restriction:
Open Access Unrestricted online access

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