Until recently, many in the Western world regarded medicine as a
wholly scientific pursuit, separate from and even antithetical to
spiritual and artistic concerns. Yet every physician who
acknowledges uncertainty as a recurring factor in medical practice
understands the fallibility of science and technology.
Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians explores the profound
connections between medicine and poetry through the eyes of
contemporary physician-poets. These one hundred poems record
instances of pain and recovery, joy and grief, humor and irony
within the restricted society of loon and their patients.
The editors of this anthology have divided the poems into four
sections to reflect the depth and diversity of the physician
experience. Poems in the first and largest group show doctors in
the clinical setting, dealing directly with their patients and the
diseases that plague them. The subsequent sections bring together
poems that explore the doctors' private worlds and family
relationships and the passing on of knowledge through the
teacher-student relationship. Finally, these physicians turn their
attention outward toward larger social and cultural concerns.
Throughout, it is evident that medicine and poetry draw from the
same deep well. At the heart of the medical encounter is the poetic
act of witnessing, simply standing in the presence of suffering --
an experience that cannot be fully expressed in scientific terms.
Doctors and patients alike experience meaning in suffering and
illness. In medicine and in poetry they find a network of healing
symbols.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Iowa Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 1998 |
| First published: |
October 1998 |
| Editors: |
Angela Belli
• Jack Coulehan
|
| Dimensions: |
146 x 234 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
224 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-87745-638-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-87745-638-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780877456384 |
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