Imagine What It's Like: A Literature and Medicine Anthology - ISBN:0824833171

Imagine What It's Like: A Literature and Medicine Anthology

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Product Description:
An anthology that grew out of Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care, a reading and discussion program for health care professionals.
int roduc t ion
Robertson Davies, the great Canadian writer, asked in an essay derived from a speech
he delivered to an audience of medical specialists, “Can a Doctor be a Humanist?” His
eventual answer was “Yes,” but only, he thought, if the doctor returned to the domain
of the wisdom of humanities from the world Davies called the knowledge of science.
Davies spoke and wrote within a long tradition; health care and humanities have long
been perceived as vital to one another and yet on different paths. A necessary but still
imagined intersection of medicine and the humanities has always been richly populated.
Health care workers, including doctors, nurses, and technicians, with philosophers,
historians, poets, playwrights, novelists, and short story writers, are among those who
have lived and worked at the crossroads, sometimes using their own lives as immediate
subject matter. Wisdom, unlike the knowledge of Science, as Davies suggests, involves
the realms of feeling and reflection, domains adjacent to the realm of the intellect.
Davies urged his listeners to integrate those realms into the living tissue of empathetic
practice. This imagined intersection of wisdom and science is the territory of this anthology—
ground which is contested, sometimes harrowing, and often ennobling.

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