Chekhov’s Ethical Heritage in the Contemporary American Medical Humanities

• Published in: Studia Litterarum
• Main Author: Eugenyia M. Butenina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French; Russian
• Published: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2017
• Subjects: A. Chekhov; ethics; medical humanities; LitMed; J. McConkey; W. Percy; Literature (General); PN1-6790; Percy; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2017-2-4-146-155; https://doaj.org/article/1ac98722764c4bd98f64edd8afe3e461

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...