A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
A Literary Anthology
by Randy-Michael Testa, Robert Coles, Penny Armstrong, Joseph O'Connell, M. Brownell Anderson, Kirsten Emmott, Robert Jay Lifton, Lawrence Grouse, Susan Onthank Mates, Hart Crane, Shūsaku Endō, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Anton Chekhov, Jack Coulehan, Rachel Naomi Remen, Jeffrey R. Botkin, Lorrie Moore, Theodore Deppe, Terry Tempest Williams, Bernard Pomerance, Lewis Thomas, Mikhail Bulgakov, Judy Schaefer, Walt Whitman, David B. Nash, Raymond Carver, Jeanne Bryner, Johnstone, Alyson Porter, Constance Meyd, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Lucia Cordell Getsi, Audre Lorde, Timothy J. Fisher, Sarah Lentz, Eric J. Cassel, Matt Dugan, William Carlos Williams, Michael Weingarten, David Hilfiker, James Wright, Veneta Masson, Lori Alviso Alvord, Sheryl Feldman, Rosalind Warren, Anne Fadiman, Albert Schweitzer, Rafael Campo, Cortney Davis, Jerome Lowenstein, Abraham Verghese
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About this book
A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession, who are struggling to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. Organized around the central themes of altruism, knowledge, skill, and duty, the book includes contributions from well-known authors, doctors, nurses, practitioners, and patients. Provocative and moving pieces address what it means to care for a life in a century of unprecedented scientific advances, examining issues of hope and healing from both ends of the stethoscope.
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