Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out
@inproceedings{McEntyre2013PatientPI, title={Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out}, author={Marilyn Chandler McEntyre}, year={2013} }
Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out invites readers to consider what caregivers and medical professionals may learn from poetry by patients. It offers reflections on poetry as a particularly apt vehicle for articulating the often isolating experiences of pain, fatigue, changed life rhythms, altered self-understanding, embarrassment, resistance, and acceptance.
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