Distance Learning: Empathy and Culture in Junot Diaz's "Wildwood"

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 439-450

  Garden, Rebecca ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Difference; Education; Empathy; Narrative; Representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EDUCATION; EMPATHY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

COLONIALISM; CULTURE; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EMPATHY; HUMANS; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887321257     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-013-9244-6     Document Type: Article

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