Literature and Medicine

The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) has now partnered with The Johns Hopkins University Press to offer a special subscription offer. By ordering now, ASBH members will receive a 15% discount on annual memberships.

Recognized internationally as a premier journal in the field of medical humanities, Literature and Medicine publishes the creative and critical works of renowned physician-writers, leading literary scholars, and medical humanists. Interdisciplinary in nature, the journal is devoted to exploring interfaces between literary and medical knowledge and understanding. Issues of illness, health, medical science, violence, and the body are examined through literary and cultural texts. The combination of high caliber articles and the editors' commitment to publishing the most generative literary scholarship and the most reflective practices of medicine, result in a valuable scholarly resource.

Articles on salient topics by leading scholars in the medical humanities and special issues, such as The Art of the Case History, make Literature and Medicine indispensable to educators and students. The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) has partnered with The Johns Hopkins University Press to offer ASBH members a special discount to Literature and Medicine. Please subscribe now and take advantage of our ASBH 15% discount on annual subscriptions. For additional information visit the Literature and Medicine website at http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/literature_and_medicine/.

Past articles have included

• Charles M. Anderson, "'Forty acres of cotton waiting to be picked': Medical Students, Storytelling, and the Rhetoric of Healing"
• Arthur W. Frank, "Reclaiming an Orphan Genre: The First-Person Narrative of Illness"
• Sander Gilman, "Fat as Disability: The Case of the Jews"
• Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, "Charting Dante: The Inferno and Medical Education"
• David B. Morris, "Environment: The White Noise of Health"
• Susan Squier, "Meditation, Disability, and Identity"
• Richard M. Zaner, "Sisyphus without Knees: Exploring Self-Other Relationships through Illness and Disability"

A sample issue of Literature and Medicine is available online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lm Subscribe today and join the thousands of health professionals and students who use Literature and Medicine to enrich their professional lives.

“Since its inception, Literature and Medicine has occupied a position of prime importance to students and scholars in the burgeoning field of medical humanities. In fact, L&M has become the defining voice of this exciting scholarly pursuit.”

~ Richard Selzer,
Yale University

• Volume 24, Number 1, Spring 2005
• Volume 23, Number 2, Fall 2004
• Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2004