Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction

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Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction
Author : Anne Whitehead
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Language : English
Release Date : 08 September 2017
ISBN : 9780748686193
Pages : 225 pages
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Examines tourists' aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formation.

Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction

Examines tourists' aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formation.

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Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction

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