Chekhov’s Ethical Heritage in the Contemporary American Medical Humanities
The paper discusses Chekhovian ethical discourse in American fiction and non-fiction that forms part of an emerging literary canon of medical humanities in the USA. Besides Chekhov’s “medical” stories, special attention is given to his book Sakhalin Island seen as an object of “moral cartography.” T...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:1ac98722764c4bd98f64edd8afe3e461 2023-05-15T18:08:54+02:00 Chekhov’s Ethical Heritage in the Contemporary American Medical Humanities Eugenyia M. Butenina 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2017-2-4-146-155 https://doaj.org/article/1ac98722764c4bd98f64edd8afe3e461 EN FR RU eng fre rus A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences http://studlit.ru/images/2017-2-4/Butenina.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/2500-4247 https://doaj.org/toc/2541-8564 doi:10.22455/2500-4247-2017-2-4-146-155 2500-4247 2541-8564 https://doaj.org/article/1ac98722764c4bd98f64edd8afe3e461 Studia Litterarum, Vol 2, Iss 4, Pp 146-155 (2017) A. Chekhov ethics medical humanities LitMed J. McConkey W. Percy Literature (General) PN1-6790 article 2017 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2017-2-4-146-155 2022-12-30T21:50:30Z The paper discusses Chekhovian ethical discourse in American fiction and non-fiction that forms part of an emerging literary canon of medical humanities in the USA. Besides Chekhov’s “medical” stories, special attention is given to his book Sakhalin Island seen as an object of “moral cartography.” The analysis of contemporary medical humanities in the USA shows that Chekhov’s ethical heritage has entered this field at several levels. One is teaching “medical” stories and Sakhalin Island as part of the future doctors’ ethical education. The other is expanding the literary-medical context by including these texts in comparative studies and anthologies. Finally, there is the overall level of developing the method of literary “diagnostic” bearing on Chekhov’s ethical heritage that is important for the study of both fiction and non-fiction authored by doctors-writers. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sakhalin Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Percy ENVELOPE(-55.883,-55.883,-63.250,-63.250) Studia Litterarum 2 4 146 155 |
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The paper discusses Chekhovian ethical discourse in American fiction and non-fiction that forms part of an emerging literary canon of medical humanities in the USA. Besides Chekhov’s “medical” stories, special attention is given to his book Sakhalin Island seen as an object of “moral cartography.” The analysis of contemporary medical humanities in the USA shows that Chekhov’s ethical heritage has entered this field at several levels. One is teaching “medical” stories and Sakhalin Island as part of the future doctors’ ethical education. The other is expanding the literary-medical context by including these texts in comparative studies and anthologies. Finally, there is the overall level of developing the method of literary “diagnostic” bearing on Chekhov’s ethical heritage that is important for the study of both fiction and non-fiction authored by doctors-writers. |
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