Bøker i Literature and Medicine-serien

What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? In brave, revealing, and often humorous poetry and prose, Learning to Heal explores these questions with contributions by nurses from a variety of social, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds.

Assembles an insightful group of contributors to discuss the ways in which medical professionals can powerfully engage with their students through a variety of literary texts, including the work of Leo Tolstoy, Mary Shelley, and Stephen King.

Camus's The Plague is widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century fiction and as an interesting point of reference for the field of health humanities. Woods Nash's edited collection of essays explores how The Plague illuminates important themes, ideas, dilemmas, and roles in modern healthcare.

In 1972 David Sklar left in his senior year of college to volunteer at a community clinic in rural Mexico. The experience challenged him and, ultimately, molded him into a skilled emergency physician. Years later, Sklar revisited the village and clinic that had inspired him to be not only a doctor but later a good husband and father.