Literature and Medicine

“Literature and Medicine should have a role in the teaching
of every medical educator and a place on the shelves of every
medical school library”

- Larry Churchill, Author of Rationing Health Care in America
and Self-Interest and Universal Health Care

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. Please subscribe now and take advantage of our 20% discount on annual subscriptions. For additional information visit the Literature and Medicine website.

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, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lm.
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“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

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Literature and Medicine

“Literature and Medicine should have a role in the teaching of every medical educator and a place on the shelves of every medical school library”

“Literature and Medicine should have a role in the teaching
of every medical educator and a place on the shelves of every
medical school library”