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"Scoot down to the edge of the table, hon": women's medical experiences portrayed in literature.

Tags: *Drama, *Medicine in Literature, *women's health, 1991, Attitude of Health Personnel, Attitude to Health, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Female, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nixon L L, Poetry as Topic, Self Concept, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha, Wear D

"Your breasts/sliced off": literary images of breast cancer.

This essay explores how breast cancer and mastectomy are portrayed in twentieth-century North American literature. The purpose in doing so is to examine our understandings of how women in contemporary North American culture may experience this…

Tags: *Drama, *Medicine in Literature, *Poetry as Topic, *women's health, 1993, Adult, Breast Neoplasms/*psychology/surgery, Denial (Psychology), Department of Family & Community Medicine, Female, Humans, Mastectomy/*psychology, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, North America, Psychological/*etiology, Stress, Wear D, Women & health

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