英文摘要 |
The purpose of this paper is to deal with ethical concerns in thanatology as well as medical ethics in Margaret Edson's Wit, and to explore how the playwright exhibits some important issues in medical humanities education (patient-centered care, humane medical treatment, empathy towards patients, etc.) through meta-theatrical devices, concepts of life and death in the seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry, and patient-doctor interaction and relationship. Besides, this paper will probe how the protagonist, Vivian Bearing, gets the meaning of life in perspective in the midst of routine medical treatment, inhumane medical care, and ethical imbalance in doctor-patient relationship. |