Commentary on an Excerpt From The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition.
Humans; Physicians/*psychology; *Medicine in Literature; *Physician-Patient Relations; *Stress; Pain/*psychology; Psychological
Blackie Michael
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
2017
2017-10
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/01.ACM.0000525543.71512.e3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/01.ACM.0000525543.71512.e3</a>
(Whose) family values?: a literary inquiry.
Female; Humans; Male; United States; *Medicine in Literature; Family Practice/*education; Family/*psychology; *Social Values
Wear D
Family medicine
2000
2000-08
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"Scoot down to the edge of the table, hon": women's medical experiences portrayed in literature.
Female; Humans; *Women's Health; Attitude of Health Personnel; *Medicine in Literature; Attitude to Health; Poetry as Topic; *Drama; Self Concept
Wear D; Nixon L L
The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha
1991
1905-06
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Making meaning of illness: Arthur Frank's The Wounded Storyteller.
Female; Humans; United States; *Medicine in Literature; *Attitude to Health; Breast Neoplasms/psychology; Mastectomy/psychology/rehabilitation; Poetry as Topic
Wear D; Jones T; Nixon L L
The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha
1999
1905-06
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Literary images of menopause.
Female; Humans; *Medicine in Literature; *Poetry as Topic; Menopause/*psychology
In contemporary North American cultures, menopause is primarily thought of as a deficiency disease. In literature, however, authors often portray menopause differently. In various literary portrayals, menopause evokes themes of the urgency of remaining life span, the occurrence of a significant life event, and a rite of passage. The use of literature to understand the way women experience life may help deepen and enlarge the perceptions of students and residents regarding the menopause.
Wear D
Family medicine
1993
1993-10
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Feminist criticism in literature and medicine.
Female; Humans; United States; Attitude of Health Personnel; *Medicine in Literature; Teaching; *Literature; *Women's Rights; Women's Health; Ethics; Medical; Modern
Wear D
The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha
1994
1905-6
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Medicine and place: an inquiry.
Humans; *Attitude of Health Personnel; Physician's Role; Physicians/*psychology; *Medicine in Literature; *Physician-Patient Relations; Medical; Sociology
This essay explores the various places inhabited by doctors and patients, in order to lead doctors to a more complex understanding of their patients' experiences of illness. Using Adam Haslett's "The Good Doctor" (2002), we examine what happens when doctors enter the worlds of their patients, both the literal landscapes of their patients' homes and the hidden landscapes of their minds. We illustrate the impact place has on doctors' understanding of their patients and on the patients' attitudes toward their illness. In addition, we examine how place informs readers' perceptions of both the coherence and the divide between the worlds of doctor and patient.
Aultman Julie M; Wear Delese
Perspectives in biology and medicine
2006
1905-06
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2006.0002" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1353/pbm.2006.0002</a>
"Your breasts/sliced off": literary images of breast cancer.
Adult; Female; Humans; Middle Aged; *Women's Health; *Medicine in Literature; Mastectomy/*psychology; North America; *Poetry as Topic; *Drama; Breast Neoplasms/*psychology/surgery; Denial (Psychology); Stress; Psychological/*etiology
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 potentially fatal disease and disfigurement-understandings that often are narrowly prescribed by the abstract, universalizing language of medicine. The essay is divided into four sections based on the readings of the selected literature: denial and fear; sadness and pain; shame through others' eyes; and transcendence.
Wear D
Women & health
1993
1993
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1300/J013v20n04_06" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1300/J013v20n04_06</a>
Medicine and the arts. Scenes from a Mastectomy [excerpt] by Alicia Ostriker. Commentary.
*Medicine in Literature; 20th Century; Breast Neoplasms/*psychology/*surgery; Female; History; Humans; Mastectomy/*psychology; United States
Wear Delese
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
2007
2007-12
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e318159e352" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/ACM.0b013e318159e352</a>
Three Things to Do With Stories: Using Literature in Medical, Health Professions, and Interprofessional Education.
*Curriculum; *Interprofessional Relations; *Medicine in Literature; Comprehension; Education; Health Occupations/*education; Humans; Literature; Medical; Morals; Professional/methods; Undergraduate/*methods
It would be unusual to find a current medical school administrator or faculty member who has not heard the phrase "literature and medicine" or who does not know that literature is taught in various forms-short stories, novels, poems, essays-at many points in the curriculum at U.S. medical schools. Yet the phrase is used in slippery if not elusive ways, with no clear referent common to all who use it. This article focuses on three theoretical and pedagogical uses for literature in medical, health professions, and interprofessional education: close reading, ethical or moral inquiry, and drawing illustrations. Summaries of these approaches are provided, followed by demonstrations of how they might work in the classroom by using the story "Blankets," by Native American writer Sherman Alexie.Close reading requires reading slowly and carefully to enrich an initial encounter with a text. Ethical or moral inquiry turns to literary representations to challenge readers' assumptions and prejudices. Literature offers rich, provoking, and unusual depictions of common phenomena, so it can be used to draw illustrations. Although each approach can be used on its own, the authors argue that reading closely makes the other two approaches possible and meaningful because it shares with the diagnostic process many practices critical to skilled interprofessional caregiving: paying attention to details, gathering and reevaluating evidence, weighing competing interpretations. By modeling a close reading of a text, faculty can demonstrate how this skill, which courts rather than resists ambiguity, can assist students in making ethical and compassionate judgments.
Blackie Michael; Wear Delese
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
2015
2015-10
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000000761" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/ACM.0000000000000761</a>
The House of God : another look.
*Medicine in Literature; *Organizational Culture; *Wit and Humor as Topic; Attitude of Health Personnel; Clinical; Ethics; Hospitals; Humans; Internship and Residency/*methods; Medical/*psychology; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Socialization; Students; Teaching/methods; United States; Women/psychology
Since its publication in 1978, Samuel Shem's The House of God has sold over two million copies in over 50 countries. While it has remained popular among medical students, its value as a literary text to promote critical reflection on self and profession continues to be unrecognized in professional spheres. In spite of the ongoing conditions in medical training that prompted Shem's satirical novel, The House of God continues to evoke negative responses from academic medicine and has even been dismissed as "dated." This article examines the novel, its reception by academic medicine, and the relevance of its satire through an analyses of articles, reviews, and letters, along with Shem's observations on the novel and its controversies. Finally, the future of The House of God is proposed.
Wear Delese
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
2002
2002-06
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200206000-00005" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/00001888-200206000-00005</a>
On small, good things in medicine.
*Attitude to Death; *Medicine in Literature; *Social Support; Grief; Humans; Parents/*psychology
Wear Delese; Zarconi Joseph
The American journal of medicine
2012
2012-03
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.10.011" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.10.011</a>
A reminiscence.
*Awards and Prizes; *Medicine in Literature; *Students; 20th Century; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Alopecia; Disasters; History; Humans; Medical; Poetry as Topic/*history; United States
The founding of the William Carlos Williams poetry competition for medical students is recounted. A few highlights from its nearly twenty-five years of operation are offered. Gleanings from the hearts and souls of some of the winning poets are shared.
Kohn Martin
The Journal of medical humanities
2005
1905-6
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-005-7701-6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1007/s10912-005-7701-6</a>