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Imagine What It’s Like: A Literature
and Medicine Anthology is now available.
This contains the widest range and greatest number of selections of any other literature and medicine anthology,
as well as useful commentary by the editor.
For ordering information and details about the anthology,
click here.
Imagine... doctors, nurses, receptionists, trustees, administrators, lab technicians, physician assistants, books in hand, talking about what they have read, and reflecting together on what it means to them—as people, and as professionals engaged in the enterprise of health care. It’s happening now! Health care professionals in 79 hospitals and community health care facilities in Maine and 13 partnering states have taken part since the program was first piloted in Maine in 1997. And what difference does it make? A hospital vice-president sums it up this way: “It is difficult to articulate how this relatively simple concept of bringing people together . . . has made a lasting and transformational impact to our small rural hospital and surrounding communities. To quote Henry David Thoreau, ‘Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant.’”
“It is as important to know the person who has the disease
as it is to know the disease the person has.” Sir William Osler
For more information, please contact:
Literature & Medicine
Maine Humanities Council
674 Brighton Avenue, Portland, ME 04102
Phone: (207) 773-5051
Fax: (207) 773-2416
Victoria Bonebakker
Associate Director and Program Director for Literature & Medicine
vbonebak@mainehumanities.org
Lizz Sinclair
Program Officer & Program Coordinator
lizz@mainehumanities.org
updated April, 2008
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