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Eco-Anxiety and the Intractable Afterlives of Plastic by Ramírez, Geovani

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Love, Death, and-No Hospital!: Assisted Dying, "Liebestod," and Existential Suffering by Keller, Marc

“…Contemporary literature about assisted dying in Germany, Switzerland, and France repeatedly explores the impact of illness on romantic relationships. Faced…”
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The Intimate Palliative Sphere: Affect, Gender, and the Good Death in Relational End-of-Life Narratives by Herges, Katja

“…An increasing number of collaborative end-of-life narratives have been published after the death of the protagonist. Focusing on two examples of women's…”
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Holes in the Protective Cloak of Palliative Care: Mathieu Simonet's La maternité and Eduardo Berti's An Ideal Presence by Pröll, Julia

“…In the novels An Ideal Presence (2020) by Eduardo Berti and La maternité [Maternity] (2012) by Mathieu Simonet, relatives of the dying and palliative care…”
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Afterlife by Sample, Susan J

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Knowing Black Afterlives by Bain, Kimberly

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The Peculiar Sensation by Hayes, Endia

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Introduction: A "Totalizing" View of Palliative Care by Elsner, Anna M, Wilson, Steven

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A Practice of Literary Palliation: Philippe Forest's L'Enfant éternel by McCullough, Jordan Owen

“…Philippe Forest's first autofictional novel, L'Enfant éternel (The eternal child), centers on the terminal illness and eventual death of the author's daughter,…”
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Last Narratives: Life Writing Palliative Praxis by Gygax, Franziska

“…Research on palliative care emphasizes the crucial role of narratives in the encounter with suffering and dying patients because we need to learn from the…”
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Sitting with Death by Gray, Nathan

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Palliative Images in Marion Coutts's The Iceberg and Marco Peano's L'invenzione della madre by Vaccarella, Maria

“…This article explores the representation of terminal brain cancer in Marion Coutts's memoir The Iceberg (2014), on her husband's illness and death, and Marco…”
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Cicely Saunders and the Literary and Cultural Heritage of "Total Pain" by Wood, Joe

“…In this article, I present some of the literary and cultural influences behind hospice pioneer Cicely Saunders's idea of "total pain," a term she used from the…”
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Afterlife and Life-After by Konerman-Sease, Jaime

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Pain Rules by Marx, Sal

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Essaying Pain by Jurecic, Ann

“…Narrative has long been central to the study of literature about illness, but we err if we assume that memoir and fiction alone depict the embodied experience…”
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Pain Scale by Marx, Sal

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Editor's Foreword by Blackie, Michael

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Attending Pain, Ethnographically by Crowley-Matoka, Megan

“…What might ethnography-as both practice and text-offer for thinking about and with non-narrative forms of pain representation? Ethnography operates as an…”
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Vehement Experiences: The Inscription and Description of Delusion in Nineteenth-century French Asylums by Moscoso, Javier

“…This essay explores the differences in the narrative forms of mental illness, depending on whether the sources consulted come from published medical histories…”
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