Product Description: Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology...read more

Product Description: Triple Takes on Curricular Worlds is a groundbreaking exploration of curriculum studies that offers a new understanding of the "selves" educators bring to work. Three educators from three different disciplines write on issues not usually forefronted in curriculum studies: boundaries, disgrace, distance, fear, forgiveness, light, and mothers...read more

A collection of stories, poems, and essays celebrates the humanity of medicine, the wonders of the medical profession, and the issues, challenges, and concerns confronting doctors and patients with selections by such writers as W. H. Auden, Anton Chekov, Pablo Neruda, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, May Sarton, and others. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Examines the training of our physicians and shows us how "scientific objectivity" reinforces cultural biases based on gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. But, Wear argues, when wise teachers use literature and art to decode the scripts of traditional medical education, doctors can learn to bring into their practices the healing values of imagination, empathy, and social justice...read more

Book by Wear, Delese, Nixon, Lois Lacivita

Product Description: The Center of the Web examines the complexities of how solitude is perceived by women. Each contributor describes how solitude is a dimension of her personal and public life: how she defines it, if and how she seeks it, where she finds it, and how it influences her life...read more