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The Patient's Voice: A Cry in Solitude or a Call for Community
- Literature and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 23, Number 2, Fall 2004
- pp. 346-363
- 10.1353/lm.2005.0016
- Article
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Many patients and caregivers navigate illness alone. Their isolation can stem from the intrinsic experience of illness or arise in relation to the wider society's lack of support. Reading illness memoirs is one way to explore how individuals deal with isolation. My goal is to present the compelling voices of particular patients and caregivers with the hope that readers might listen, connect and be moved to build communities of caring.