Reading with an “Inveterate Hypochondriac”

Pedagogy Oct 2010

Reading with an “Inveterate Hypochondriac”

Shannon R. Wooden ; Maura Spiegel ; Sayantani DasGupta

Abstract

Narrative medicine, designed to develop empathic listening skills in healthcare professionals, also helps literature teachers discuss ethics without sacrificing critical rigor. Reading the distasteful narrator of Dostoevsky's challenging story as the notorious “hated patient/unreliable historian” of clinical practice, we demonstrate how students can practice reading empathically as a fundamentally ethical act.

Journal: Pedagogy
Published: 2010-10-01
DOI: 10.1215/15314200-2010-003
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality

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