Literature and Medicine

For more than a quarter of a century, Literature and Medicine has published quality scholarly essays exploring interdisciplinary connections between literary understanding and medical knowledge and practice. Disease, illness and health, medical science, trauma, and the body are examined through literary, medical, and cultural texts. The journal’s readership includes health care professionals as well as scholars of literature, history, writing, narrative, rhetoric, trauma, anthropology, culture, and critical theory. Special issues of the journal have provided invaluable, extended examinations of important areas including Difference and Identity; Genomics, Literature, Visual Arts, and Culture; and most recently, Cancer Stories. Literature and Medicine features one thematic and one general issue each year. Literature and Medicine is co sponsored by the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, the Division of Medical Humanities at The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.