literature about medical issues

Fri Nov 8 15:32:43 UTC 2002

Liudmila Petrushevskaia's "Panya's Poor Heart" is about pregnancy and late-term
abortion. It's translated by Sallie Laird in Index on Censorship, 1995, #4, pp.
51-56.

bellsj wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am a graduate student in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.
> I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some contemporary
> Russian stories/novels which deal specifically with medical issues or employ
> metaphors of health or mortality. I am currently looking at hunger in
> Shalamov's _Kolyma Tales_ but I am interested in something a bit more
> explicit.
>
> English translations would be very helpful!
>
> Sarah Bell
>
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