The Patient as Text: Literary Scholarship and Medical Practice in Margaret Edson's Wit

AMA J Ethics. 2015 Sep 1;17(9):858-64. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.9.imhl1-1509.
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Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Death*
  • Dehumanization*
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Ethics, Research
  • Faculty*
  • Female
  • Gynecological Examination* / psychology
  • History, 17th Century
  • Humans
  • Literature, Modern / history
  • Medical Oncology / ethics*
  • Metaphor
  • Ovarian Neoplasms* / psychology
  • Ovarian Neoplasms* / therapy
  • Personhood
  • Physician-Patient Relations / ethics*
  • Poetry as Topic / history
  • Resuscitation Orders* / ethics
  • Students
  • Teaching* / ethics
  • Teaching* / methods
  • Teaching* / standards
  • Terminology as Topic
  • Therapeutic Human Experimentation* / ethics
  • Wit and Humor as Topic

Personal name as subject

  • John Donne