Making meaning of illness: Arthur Frank's The Wounded Storyteller.
Creator
Wear D; Jones T; Nixon L L
Publisher
The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha
Date
1999
1905-06
Subject
Female; Humans; United States; *Medicine in Literature; *Attitude to Health; Breast Neoplasms/psychology; Mastectomy/psychology/rehabilitation; Poetry as Topic
Rights
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The fictional world: What literature says to health professionals.
Creator
Wear D; Nixon L L
Publisher
The Journal of medical humanities
Date
1991
1991-06
Description
Our purpose has been to illuminate questions surrounding the use of literature in medical education, and to propose criteria for selecting literature which is more likely to evoke readers to reflect on their personal and professional selves. We have suggested that literature promoting vicariousness and vulnerability may validate readers' questions, insecurities, and beliefs insofar as readers are willing to engage with the text cognitively and phenomenologically. This we call reader responsibility. Crucial to nurturing this responsibility are medical educators 2- ducators in any context, for that matter - who are vulnerable themselves, who puzzle outloud, who admit their own incompleteness. Together as learners, teachers and students may come to realize that it is, in the end, the artist whopresses upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power ... (which) seizes our lives, and which reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered. (Dillard 1989
The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures.
Creator
Wear D; Nixon L L
Publisher
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Date
2001
2001-06
Subject
*Culture; *Medical History Taking; *Professional-Family Relations; *Seizures/diagnosis/drug therapy/psychology; Female; Humans; Infant; Medical Records; Thailand; United States