Exilic effects of illness and pain in Solzhenitsyn's cancer ward: How sharpening the moral imagination can facilitate repatriation

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-42

  Goldberg, Daniel S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer ward; Empathy; Exile; Liminal; Moral imagination; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPATHY; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MORALITY; PAIN; POLITICS; WRITING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPATHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MORALS; PAIN; POLITICS; WRITING;

EID: 58949091427     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-008-9072-2     Document Type: Article

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