What to Read on Love, not Sex examines Sigmund Freud's career-long reliance on tragedy, myth, scr...

Imagining Vesalius is a collection of ekphrastic works-poetry, prose, watercolors and sculpture -...

Intriguing parallels arise between contemporary end of life images and themes expressed historica...

This collection of essays challenges static and binary discourses regarding the Cuban healthcare ...

Using the tools of book history, media studies, and literary theory, Fixing Women examines the co...

For the first time, a book considers the doctor patient relationship in the long period and from ...

What is it to talk about gene transfer, gene therapy, and gene doping? Is choosing deafness with ...

All of us live between peril and safety, danger and security, sickness and wellness, death and li...

Many of the bioethical and medical issues challenging society today have been anticipated and add...

Threatened by sharp cuts in state government support and stagnant federal research funding, US pu...

Soul Stories is an exploration of the boundaries of narrative within health and healing in the co...

This reader reprints critical essays published over the course of a 100-year history that grapple...

Do your doctors share what they have learned from you? Likely not! With little precedent for phys...

The Firefly Project: Conversations about what it means to be alive, presents true dialogues about...

How is it that people in search of healing were at one time able to experience the therapeutic ef...

Each fall, first year medical students recite the traditional Hippocratic Oath, a promise of thei...

For more than a decade The Healing Art of Writing conference has sought to strengthen compassiona...

This book contains descriptions of 22 persons, professors of medicine, many of them trained by Be...

Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out invites readers to consider what caregivers and medical pr...

This volume provides a transcript of the meetings on Racism and Race: The Use of Race in Medicine...

Women Physician Pioneers of the 1960s is a biographical account of a group of classmates from UCS...