Illness and writing: a form of identity?
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Abstract
This article traces the relationship between illness and writing from the earliest records of somatic ailments in Sappho, through illness as fate in the twentieth century, to the development of narrative medicine in the contemporary era, which seeks to reconcile the expressive instances of the patient and the humanization of care by medical personnel
Keywords
- illness
- medical humanities
- writing
- literature
- therapy
