re>Chapter One The Liminal Physician Writers: A Tour of the Field of Physician Writing
Chapter Two Physician, Heal Thyself: Writing about Pain
I . The Pain of Witnessing Pain: Jack Coulehan's
"D Day, 1994"
II. The Pain of Killing Pain: Richard Selzer's "Mercy"
III. The Amnestic Healer: Trauma and Memory in Richard
Selzer's Raising the Dead
IV. Conclusion
Chapter Three The Gender Line in the Medical Profession
I . Liminal Masculinity in Richard Selzer's Knife
Song Korea
II. Against Abstraction: Perri Klass's Other
Women's Children
III. Conclusion
Chapter Four Transition and Communitas: Ethnic Physicians and the AIDS Epidemic
I . Home in the Making: Abraham Verghese's My Own Country:
A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the
Age of AIDS
II "The Dream of You Dreaming Me": Rafael Campo's
"You Bring out the Doctor in Me"
III. Conclusion
Chapter Five Healing on the Edge: Stories of Confession and Grief
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