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Record Nr.

UNINA9910882999003321

Autore

Stripling Mahala Yates

Titolo

Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature / / Mahala Yates Stripling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, CA : , : University of California Medical Humanities Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-9889865-2-3

Edizione

[Abridged paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 pages)

Collana

Pedagogy in medical humanities

Altri autori (Persone)

StriplingMahala Yates

Disciplina

809/.933561

Soggetti

Medicine in literature

Fiction

Bioethics

Bioethique

Roman - 19e siecle - Histoire et critique

Medecine dans la litterature

Bioethical Issues

Medicine in Literature

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Abridgement of: Bioethics and medical issues in literature / Mahala Yates Stripling. 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.