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Gabriel García Márquez
insanity, respect for autonomy, public health, gender, relationships
"I Only Came to Use the Phone"
Gabriel García Márquez
insanity, respect for autonomy, public health, gender, relationships

Maria’s car stalls and she is picked up by a van of a mental institution. When she arrives at the institution, she is thought to be one of the inpatients and she finds it impossible to find her way out again.

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Gabriel García Márquez
insanity, respect for autonomy, public health, gender, relationships
Anton Chekhov
Manic-Depression, meaning of life, public health, respect for autonomy
The Black Monk
Anton Chekhov
Manic-Depression, meaning of life, public health, respect for autonomy

A Russian intellectual struggles with mental health issues on an estate in the Russian countryside.

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Anton Chekhov
Manic-Depression, meaning of life, public health, respect for autonomy
T. Coraghessan Boyle
medical ethics, public health, incarceration, respect for autonomy, race and ethnicity
The Fugitive
T. Coraghessan Boyle
medical ethics, public health, incarceration, respect for autonomy, race and ethnicity

A young man of Mexican descent living north of the border has a recurrence of tuberculosis and resists being monitored by health care workers and law enforcement. 

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T. Coraghessan Boyle
medical ethics, public health, incarceration, respect for autonomy, race and ethnicity

 

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