Bloodletting And Miraculous Cures Summary

A scholarly article is going to be my secondary source to represent the novel, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam, which will display the contents of this unit effectively. The reason why I chose this source is because it illustrates the incidents and ideas present in the novel.
To begin with, the article starts out by talking about SARS, which is a medical disease that stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. This is significant because the last two chapters talks about this disease, which is an important incident that happened in this novel. When talking about SARS, the novel deals with ethical and moral issues that the doctors faced when dealing with this disease. The SARS incident provokes issues such as the harms of spreading the disease to others through the character of Dolores. Furthermore, this paper talks about the duties of the medical profession and this relates back to the book because in the novel both Dr. Chen and Dr. Fitzgerald are infected with SARS. The duties of the other
The paper talks about how a nurse named “June” had the symptoms of SARS and boarded the GO train. The others commuting on the train had a right to know about the situation but it is beneficial to the situation that the “June’s” name and privacy is withheld. The theme of isolation is also present in the book. Isolation is shown through the character of Fitzgerald and Chen. When Fitzgerald and Chen are separated through a glass window, one can assume that they feel extremely isolated. In the scientific paper, isolation is shown when it states,
“"Michel" is in quarantine because a family member has contracted SARS, and he may have been infected. A close family friend has died from causes not associated with the SARS epidemic, and "Michel" is torn between wanting to attend the funeral and his duty to respect the quarantine