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"I Only Came to Use the Phone"

By Gabriel García Márquez

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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In Latin America Tags: insanity, respect for autonomy, public health, gender, relationships

The Black Monk

By Anton Chekhov

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

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In Europe Tags: Manic-Depression, meaning of life, public health, respect for autonomy

The Fugitive

By T. Coraghessan Boyle

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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In North America Tags: medical ethics, public health, incarceration, respect for autonomy, race and ethnicity

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  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
  • child-rearing 8
  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
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  • irony 2
  • love 1
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  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
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  • morality 1
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  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
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