Abstract
In this essay, I analyze two memoirs - Rafael Campo's The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire and Abraham Verghese's My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS - which describe the effects of treating HIV/ AIDS on each doctor's identity, on his desire for community and belonging, and on his identification and/or disidentification with the medical profession in the United States. My readings of Campo and Verghese revolve around three key terms provided by Campo's subtitle: Identity, empathy, and desire. I shift the order of these terms in Campo's subtitle because I want to read identity, empathy, and desire in Campo and Verghese through and along with the theoretical "pragmatics" of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 237-257 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Journal of Medical Humanities |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2005 |
Keywords
- Doctor-patient relationship
- Empathy
- Ethnicity
- HIV/AIDS
- Identity
- Illness narratives
- Sexuality
- Suffering
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