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Identity and Compassion in Rafael Campo's "The Distant Moon"
- Literature and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 2000
- pp. 262-279
- 10.1353/lm.2000.0025
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This essay explores how physician-poet Rafael Campo uses identity as a metaphor for medical compassion and how Campo's critique of the figure of the phsycian becomes a basis for reconstructing that compassion.