| AIDS and its treatments: two doctors' narratives of healing, desire, and belonging. | |
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PMID: 16333687 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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In this essay, I analyze two memoirs--Rafael Campo's The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire and Abraham Verghese's My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS--which describe the effects of treating HIV/AIDS on each doctor's identity, on his desire for community and belonging, and on his identification and/or disidentification with the medical profession in the United States. My readings of Campo and Verghese revolve around three key terms provided by Campo's subtitle: identity, empathy, and desire. I shift the order of these terms in Campo's subtitle because I want to read identity, empathy, and desire in Campo and Verghese through and along with the theoretical "pragmatics" of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. |
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Authors:
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Lisa Diedrich |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Biography; Historical Article; Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of medical humanities Volume: 26 ISSN: 1041-3545 ISO Abbreviation: J Med Humanit Publication Date: 2005 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2005-12-07 Completed Date: 2006-03-21 Revised Date: 2006-12-21 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8917478 Medline TA: J Med Humanit Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 237-57 Citation Subset: E; IM |
Affiliation:
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Women's Studies Program, SUNY-Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA. ldiedrich@notes.cc.sunysb.edu |
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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history,
therapy* Adult Autobiography Cuba / ethnology Empathy History, 20th Century Humans India / ethnology Life Change Events Male Medicine in Literature* Physician's Role / history, psychology Physician-Patient Relations* Social Desirability Social Identification United States |
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Personal Name Subject:
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Rafael Campo; Abraham Verghese |
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