Commitment and solidarity : war, resistance, and Camus's The plague / Stephen Eric Bronner -- Bernard Rieux : the physician as Sisyphus / Steven G. Kellman -- The healer's witness : The plague and bioethics / Courtney S. Campbell -- The plague's celebration of humanism / Faith L. Lagay -- The plague's diverse templates for health professionals, volunteers, and patients / Mark Orme -- "Circles of separation and solidarity" : diasporic experience in The plague / Anoushka Sinha -- Dr. Rieux's metaphysical and narrative chronicle of a plague / Suzanne LaLonde -- Evolution of a disease from the plague to outbreak and "plague, inc." / Veronique Maisier -- A plague in the flesh : reading Camus after the 2014-16 ebola outbreak / Noah K. Rosenberg -- Who cares . . . really? daring to read The plague / Douglas Brown -- The social experience of resilience in The plague / Woods Nash and Sylvia Villarreal.
Summary:
"Albert Camus's The Plague (1947) is widely regarded as a classic of twentieth-century fiction and a touchstone for the field of literature and medicine. Nash's edited collection of essays explores how The Plague illuminates important themes, ideas, dilemmas, and roles in modern medicine, helping readers--and particularly medical students and practitioners--see the value in Camus's novel. The essays represent various disciplinary and personal perspectives; the introduction presents the overarching theme of 'transmission' that holds the book together"-- Provided by publisher.
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