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. 2020 May 1;22(5):E441-445.
doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.441.

Salvation in a Time of Plague

Ginia Sweeney  1
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Salvation in a Time of Plague

Ginia Sweeney. AMA J Ethics. .
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Abstract

Health workers offer their skills and care to COVID-19 pandemic patients, just as St Roch offered healing to those stricken by bubonic plague during the Renaissance. This article interprets 3 works of art in light of Roch's story of illness and recovery and applies key insights of ethical, artistic, and clinical relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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