Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, CA :
University of California Medical Humanities Press
2013.
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| Edition: | Abridged paperback edition |
| Series: | Pedagogy in medical humanities.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009845039706719 |
Table of 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.
