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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

(Whose) family values?: a literary inquiry.

Tags: *Medicine in Literature, *Social Values, 2000, Department of Family & Community Medicine, family medicine, Family Practice/*education, Family/*psychology, Female, Humans, Male, NEOMED College of Medicine, United States, Wear D

A reminiscence.

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…

Tags: *Awards and Prizes, *Medicine in Literature, *Students, 2005, 20th Century, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, alopecia, Disasters, History, Humans, Kohn Martin, Medical, Poetry as Topic/*history, The Journal of medical humanities, United States

Commentary on an Excerpt From The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition.

Tags: *Medicine in Literature, *Physician-Patient Relations, *Stress, 2017, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Blackie Michael, Humans, Pain/*psychology, Physicians/*psychology, Psychological

Feminist criticism in literature and medicine.

Tags: *Literature, *Medicine in Literature, *Women's Rights, 1994, Attitude of Health Personnel, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Ethics, Female, Humans, Medical, Modern, NEOMED College of Medicine, Teaching, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha, United States, Wear D, Women's Health

Literary images of menopause.

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…

Tags: *Medicine in Literature, *Poetry as Topic, 1993, Department of Family & Community Medicine, family medicine, Female, Humans, Menopause/*psychology, NEOMED College of Medicine, Wear D

Making meaning of illness: Arthur Frank's The Wounded Storyteller.

Tags: *Attitude to Health, *Medicine in Literature, 1999, Breast Neoplasms/psychology, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Female, Humans, Jones T, Mastectomy/psychology/rehabilitation, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nixon L L, Poetry as Topic, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha, United States, Wear D

Medicine and place: an inquiry.

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…

Tags: *Attitude of Health Personnel, *Medicine in Literature, *Physician-Patient Relations, 2006, Aultman Julie M, College of Graduate Studies, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Humans, Medical, NEOMED College of Graduate Studies, NEOMED College of Medicine, Perspectives in biology and medicine, Physician's Role, Physicians/*psychology, Sociology, Wear Delese

Medicine and the arts. Scenes from a Mastectomy [excerpt] by Alicia Ostriker. Commentary.

Tags: *Medicine in Literature, 2007, 20th Century, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Breast Neoplasms/*psychology/*surgery, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Female, History, Humans, Mastectomy/*psychology, NEOMED College of Medicine, United States, Wear Delese

On small, good things in medicine.

Tags: *Attitude to Death, *Medicine in Literature, *Social Support, 2012, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Grief, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Parents/*psychology, The American journal of medicine, Wear Delese, Zarconi Joseph

The House of God : another look.

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…

Three Things to Do With Stories: Using Literature in Medical, Health Professions, and Interprofessional Education.

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…

Tags: *Curriculum, *Interprofessional Relations, *Medicine in Literature, 2015, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Blackie Michael, Comprehension, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Education, Health Occupations/*education, Humans, Literature, Medical, Morals, NEOMED College of Medicine, Professional/methods, Undergraduate/*methods, Wear Delese

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