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Préférence Nationale

By Fatou Diome

A Senegalese woman has troubled finding work in France after a divorce from her French husband.

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In Africa Tags: race and ethnicity, discrimination, respect for autonomy

"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

A Party for the Colonel

By F T Kola

An insurance company throws a party during the apartheid years in South Africa in honour of the Colonel, an Indian salesman with an impressive record. Apartheid enters into every dimension of the lives of himself and his family.

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In Africa Tags: race, respect for autonomy, discrimination, segregation, uncle tomism

It’s Because We’re So Poor

By Juan Rulfo

If Tacha, the youngest daughter of a poor family, loses her calf in the flood, she is likely to follow her sisters into prostitution.

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In Latin America Tags: prostitution, poverty, 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

Hills like White Elephants

By Ernest Hemingway

A light-hearted conversation between a couple in a bar turns to the question whether she will or will not have an abortion.

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In North America Tags: feminism, paternalism, abortion, relations, respect for autonomy

A Jury of Her Peers

By Susan Glaspell

Mrs. Wright is suspected of murdering her husband and is in detention. A team of men visit the crime scene to conduct an investigation, joined by their wives who find out what really happened.

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In North America Tags: domestic abuse, feminism, respect for autonomy, relations, cruelty

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  • Love 1
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  • abortion 1
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