Friday, April 24, 2020

Reading Albert Camus' The Plague in today's world

Here are two new articles in the medical journals about this novel, the subject of an earlier post.  They both apply Camus' story to this present situation.

Narrative medicine: thinking with stories during The Plague, by Barend Florijn of the Leiden University Medical Centre and published in the American Journal of Medicine.   Florijn talks about the insights that patients' stories give, using the stories of characters in Camus' novel.

Albert Camus’ ‘The COVID-19 Plague’ Revisited, by Carlos Franco-Paredes of the Anschutz Medical Center, University of Colorado and published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.  Franco-Parades compares human reaction in this pandemic to the reactions of characters in the novel.

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