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Medical drama

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

A Plain Glass Sheet: Essays on Pain and Illness, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_reanier_jordan.pdf
Overview "This project aims to explore the intersections between pain, chronic illness, religion, socialization, culture, the medical system, and family. The title is based on a quote from Virginia Woolf's essay "On Being Ill" where she says that literature "...does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear, and, save for one or two passions such as desire and greed, is null, negligible and...
Dates: 2023

Refuge(e): Dispatches from the Pediatric Wards, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_jackson_benjamin.pdf
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"In the mid 2010s, my daughter Emma was emergently admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital for what would become a five-month stay. This thesis examines that time as a travelogue, particularly from the point of view as someone seeking refuge. It considers not only the experience of the stay but also the people, places, and power dynamics I encountered during it." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023

The Practitioner, 2020

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Identifier: sw_2020spring_aronofsky_james.pdf
Overview "THE PRACTITIONER an hour long medical drama that revolves around the life and work of oncology nurse practitioner Katerina Nunez Crompton and her colleagues of oncology nurse practitioners at the esteemed Boston Children's Hospital. The series will represent a new era of postracial television, in which cast members are diverse but are not defined by their race, gender, sexuality, or ethnicity. After suffering from a third trimester miscarriage and a now withering marriage, Katerina turns to...
Dates: 2020