title: The Patient as Text: Literary Scholarship and Medical Practice in Margaret Edson's Wit.
authors.affiliation: Senior lecturer in the Department of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Henley
mesh_terms: D003643:Death; D032981:Dehumanization; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D032984:Ethics, Research; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D058869:Gynecological Examination / Q000523:psychology; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern / Q000266:history; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000941:ethics*; D019365:Metaphor; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D028723:Personhood; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history; D016414:Resuscitation Orders / Q000941:ethics; D013334:Students; D013663:Teaching / Q000941:ethics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D036302:Therapeutic Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic