Medical Student Elegies: The Poetics of Caring

Journal of Medical Humanities 23 (2):119-132 (2002)
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This paper examines three medical student poems about death to explore how medical students use poetry to understand their encounters with dying patients and to discuss how these poems function as elegies in the context of medical culture

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10.1023/a:1014894015083

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Contesting Death, Speaking of Dying.Judy Z. Segal - 2000 - Journal of Medical Humanities 21 (1):29-44.
Ethical issues in modern medical autobiographies.Suzanne Poirier - 1987 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 30 (2):278.

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