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Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature / Mahala Yates Stripling.
- 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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