Author ORCID Identifier

Gilbert https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5713-0664

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-20-2018

Publication Title

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volume

40

First Page

437

Last Page

448

Abstract

This study explores the reflective processes of Scottish artist, Norman Gilbert, as he created twenty-five drawings depicting his wife, Pat Gilbert, as she lay dying following an Alzheimer’s-related stroke. Norman, ninety-one, had drawn Pat regularly over their sixty-five-year marriage. One week after Pat died, Norman was interviewed by a family friend to chronicle his reflections on the drawings. The drawings along with the interview transcript are analyzed qualitatively as a case study. Norman’s Hospital Drawings of Pat transform what was initially a private experience into a shared comprehension of end of life and bereavement.

Comments

This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-018-9510-8

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