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Mechanisms of Disease: African-American Women Writers, Social Pathologies, and the Limits of Medicine Export

by: Ann F. Stanford
NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women's Studies Association, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Spring 1994), pp. 28-47.

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Explores issues raised by Afro-American women writers using perspectives from feminist medical ethics and critiques of medicine. Examination of 'The Salt Eaters,' by Toni Cade Bambara, 'Praise Song for the Widow,' by Paule Marshall and 'The Women of Brewster Place,' by Gloria Naylor; Texts' refusal to separate illness from its social context; Portrayal of the medical profession in the novel. Comparative study of the connection between disease and sociocultural conditions. Focuses on Lucielia Louise Turner and Mattie Michael in The Women of Brewster Place.


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