The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine

Thales To Engel And The Lost Pain Of Loss

Walter A. Borden - waborden1@mac.com — Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0400

The pre-Socratic philosopher scientists, also known as the natural philosophers, and principally Thales, originated the concept of science in the 7th century BCE. They said that natural phenomena from the movement of the stars, to storms, tides, weather cycles, earthquakes, even the origin of life had nothing to do with mysticism or the gods, but could only be understood by examining nature. Anaximander, a student of Thales, developed a theory of evolution based on his observations of human infants. He concluded that we must have evolved from fish-like creatures in the sea. And Thales was enough of a psychologist to tell Solon that he never married because he was so afraid of the pain of losing a child.

Is this death?

Manna Valiathan - manna.valiathan@gmail.com — Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0400

Is this death? I wonder. I believed In an abrupt cessation of life The stilling of a beating heart The flattening of a wave A dilated pupil That no longer dances to a ray of light. Now I wonder.

Against All Odds

Brian T. Maurer - btmaurer1@comcast.net — Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0400

I first saw this boy when he was a newborn infant, eighteen years ago. His mother brought him in for his two-week well baby check. The birth had been, as noted nonchalantly in the hospital record, uneventful -- the youngest addition to a family of four children. Unfortunately, this family’s life would prove to be anything but uneventful.

Watermark by Jacquelyn Pope

Laurie Rosenblatt - Laurie_rosenblatt@dfci.harvard.edu — Mon 11 Feb 2008 20:54:00 EST

Watermark by Jacquelyn Pope won the 2004 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. Pope's poetry is striking, direct, and true. ...

Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life by Allen Shawn

Howard Spiro - howard.spiro@yale.edu — Mon 12 May 2008 21:25:00 EDT

The author, widely accomplished in music, is himself confined by a many phobic barriers, from fear of open spaces to equal anxiety in closed quarters. He describes, painfully for him and us, how many tests of his phobias he has failed. Yet his life seems to have been good

Re Verse: Essays on Poetry and Poets by David R. Slavitt

Laurie Rosenblatt - Laurie_rosenblatt@dfci.harvard.edu — Mon 4 Feb 2008 19:40:00 EST

The author of more than eighty books, David Slavitt publishes translations, poetry, novels, and memoir. His prose book, Re Verse, is a powerful collection of essays about poets and poetry. It treats familiar work in a fresh way that illuminates new aspects of each poet’s life and work and opens up poems and poets that may be a bit more difficult.

Bridge and Tunnel by John Hennessy

Laurie Rosenblatt - Laurie_rosenblatt@dfci.harvard.edu — Sun 16 Mar 2008 20:35:00 EDT

In this first book, Bridge and Tunnel, Hennessy’s rich language—look at the skilled and effective repetition, "and walked," "He walked," "He walked"—takes us through the industrial landscape of New Jersey with humor, heart, and a sharp eye. He introduces us to the neighborhood and to the local characters, "Mike Devlin" "Pan in Arkansas." Here is "Dr. Swann"

Squandermania by Don Share.

Laurie Rosenblatt - Laurie_rosenblatt@dfci.harvard.edu — Sun 18 May 2008 15:01:00 EDT

Don't skip Don Share's Squandermania just because it has an unusual title. A real word, squandermania means something like "wanton wastage" though you won't find it in most collegiate dictionaries. And don't think the title is an indication that Share's poetry will be full of hard-going vocabulary-building exercises. Actually, this smart, courageous, and passionate second poetry collection explores the intentional imprecision creeping into our language and by extension into our thought.

Transcending Motion

Pamela S. Wagner - pamwagg@cox.net — Thu 07 Jul 2005 22:50:02 -0400

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen.

P. Ravi Shankar - ravi.dr.shankar@gmail.com — Thu 14 Jun 2007 22:11:00 EDT

Nepal is one of the most remarkable countries on Earth. The country is sandwiched between two Asian giants, China and India. In most dimensions, the country is unremarkable, but in one height there is no parallel. The land rises from the flood plains of the 'terai' at around 150 to 200 meters to Mt. Everest at 8848 m, the highest point on Earth.

What Really Matters -- Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger by Arthur Kleinman

Jeremy Daniels - jdaniels@cw.bc.ca — Thu 18 Jan 2007 13:36:00 EST

Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist Arthur Kleinman's newest book, What Really Matters, is harrowing in its accounts of how people come to terms with nearly unworkable life situations. Kleinman begins with considering what living a moral life may mean, and through narratives, shows how different people live morally through wrenching situations.

Final Exam by Pauline Chen

Howard Spiro - howard.spiro@yale.edu — Thu 22 Mar 2007 15:38:00 EDT

The highest praise I can give this book is to tell that my wife Marian, married to a doctor for 56 years, picked this book up and could not put it down. She found the details of education and the revulsion at certain aspects of surgery so honest, that I earnestly recommend this book to just about everyone interested in what doctors do. After all, Marian is long accustomed to my stories -- and to those of many surgical and medical friends. If she can find something so intriguing in Pauline Chen’s account of her life in medicine and in transplant surgery, you will too! The book should be required reading for all medical students early in their career.

How People Change: The Short Story as Case History by William Tucker

Howard Spiro - howard.spiro@yale.edu — Thu 24 May 2007 22:31:00 EDT

A psychiatrist in New York with an MA in comparative literature from Yale, Dr. William Tucker has given us a fascinating book in which he takes a number of well-known short stories as case material for analysis, relying on Erikson’s eight stages of life as a model of "normal development." That strait-jacket does not confine his exercise, nor his purpose to carry "narrative," now transplanted to the medical canon, back to where it started. He analyzes classic stories – or more properly their protagonists - as if they were patients.

You Don't Have To Be Famous: How To Write Your Life Story by Steve Zousmer

Laurie Rosenblatt - Laurie_rosenblatt@dfci.harvard.edu — Thu 27 Mar 2008 21:19:00 EDT

Writing an autobiography (or an autobiographical essay) can be daunting. But writing your story can lend pattern to the formless chronicle of everyday life, share clinical or personal lessons learned, put painful events into perspective, and even bring back purpose and direction to a life set adrift by illness. In this witty, and tough-minded book, Steve Zousmer begins by telling us what he will not do. He will not act like a teacher in a creative writing workshop. He will not impose drills and exercises or urge us to read the polished prose from famous authors. He will not promise magical solutions.

Caring for Mother: A Daughter's Long Goodbye by Virginia Stem Owens

Howard Spiro - howard.spiro@yale.edu — Thu 8 Nov 2007 20:07:00 EST

This heart-rending account of a daughter's reaction to her mother's growing dementia will help you share the agony of someone with mental illness. But worse, as her mother was losing her mind, the daughter-author, Virginia Owens, was threatened with losing her sight to glaucoma. Yet she allows no self-pity in her account, only the torment of trying to make sense out of a mind coming from an increasingly distorted brain. Owens finds some consolation in trying to ferret out from her mother's increasingly garbled words some metaphors of understanding, some core of reality.

Bill by Bill Rector

Howard Spiro - howard.spiro@yale.edu — Wed 21 Mar 2007 20:19:00 EDT

William G. Rector, Jr., M.D. is a gastroenterologist whose attention ranges far from the orifice that gives so much to that field, as you will discover in looking into this imaginative collection of his poetry. Plainly labelled Bill, the front cover of his paperback book displays a right hand raised more for blessing than for probing, just right for his down-to-earth musings on his experiences, both medical and "otherwise."

Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definitions of Disease by Jeremy A. Greene

Howard Spiro - howard.spiro@yale.edu — Wed 24 Oct 2007 11:57:00 EDT

During the 60 years that I have been a physician, many symptoms have been turned into diseases, in what philosophers call reification. A good example comes in common "heartburn," which used to be a badge of conscientiousness, but now has been promoted to GERD or Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease. Professional hubris and "big pharma" enthusiasm has turned a minor symptom relieved by a little baking soda into a calamity which demands lifelong vigilance against recurrence.

Love and the Care of the Patient

Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon — Fri 06 Sep 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Hope and the Care of the Dying Patient: A Catholic, Christian Perspective

Daniel P. Sulmasy — Fri 10 May 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Faith and Care of the Patient: An Islamic Perspective on Critical Illness

Faiz Khan — Fri 14 Jun 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient

Sidney Callahan — Fri 22 Mar 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Reconciliation at the End of Life

David Novak — Mon 16 Dec 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Reflections on the Possibility of Gratitude as a Christian Virtue for Patients and Caregivers

Joel James Shuman — Mon 25 Feb 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Gratitude As Viewed in Hinduism

Uma Mysorekar — Mon 25 Feb 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Healing and Religion - A Protestant Perspective

Courtney Jane Bender — Mon 28 Jan 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Healing and Religion - A Jewish Perspective

Susan Starr Sered — Mon 28 Jan 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Hope and the Care of the Patient: A Jewish View

Abraham Twerski — Thu 09 May 2002 22:50:02 -0400

African American Christian Spirituality in the Face of Illness

Michelle D. White — Thu 09 May 2002 22:50:02 -0400

The Role of Love in the Treatment of the Patient: A Protestant View

Harvey Cox — Tue 02 Apr 2003 22:50:02 -0400

Forgiveness: Spiritual and Medical Implications

Christina M. Puchalski — Tue 17 Sep 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Dignity and Patient Care: An Islamic Perspective

Ingrid Mattson — Wed 17 Jul 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Suffering and the Christian Tradition

James F. Keenan — Wed 20 Mar 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Suffering and the Buddhist Tradition

Venerable Guo Yuan Fa Shi — Wed 20 Mar 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient

Alan A. Astrow - aastrow@maimonidesmed.org — Wed 23 Jan 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Care of the Patient (2003): Table of Contents

George A. Trone - info@yjhm.org — Wed 23 Jan 2002 22:50:02 -0400

Shame in the Context of Illness - An Islamic Perspective

Ahmed Nezar Kobeisy — Fri 17 Sep 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Fear in the Islamic Tradition

Akbar Muhammad — Fri 17 Sep 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient

Alan A. Astrow - aastrow@maimonidesmed.org — Fri 17 Sep 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Control in the Context of Illness - A Catholic Perspective

Daniel P. Sulmasy — Fri 17 Sep 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Shame and Illness - A Jewish Perspective

Michelle E. Friedman — Fri 17 Sep 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Apathy in the Context of Illness - A Catholic Perspective

Myles Sheehan — Fri 17 Sep 2004 22:50:02 -0400

American Protestant Fears

Pamela E. Klassen — Fri 17 Sep 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Apathy in the Context of Illness - A Humanistic Buddhist Perspective

Venerable Yifa — Fri 17 Sep 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Care of the Patient (2004): Table of Contents

George A. Trone - info@yjhm.org — Fri 17 Sep 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Sadness

Fr. Richard Rohr — Mon 11 Oct 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Control

Nicholas Vreeland — Mon 11 Oct 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Denial in the Context of Illness- An Evangelical Protestant Perspective

Chaplain Barry C. Black — Sat 05 Feb 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Guilt in the Context of Illness- A Protestant Perspective

Marilyn P. Mecham — Sat 05 Feb 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Sadness in the Context of Illness: A Jewish Perspective

Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller — Sat 05 Feb 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Overview- Loneliness in the Context of Illness

Ruth L. Fischbach — Sun 13 Mar 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Denial in the Context of Illness - A Hindu Perspective

Siva Subramanian — Thu 21 Apr 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Loneliness in the Context of Illness and Dying- A Catholic Perspective

Helen Alvare — Wed 12 Jan 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Visiting the Sick- Jewish Wisdom and Practice Speak to the Loneliness of Illness

Rabbi Tvsi Blanchard — Wed 12 Jan 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Anger in the Context of Illness- An Anglican Perspective

Sarah Coakley — Wed 12 Jan 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Anger in the Context of Illness- Perspectives from Jewish Tradition

Solomon Schimmel — Wed 12 Jan 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Dying Prolonged?

Howard Spiro - howard.spiro@yale.edu — Fri 06 Jun 2008 22:50:02 -0400

Whether we regard death as the end or as a portal to a new life, most people hope for a peaceful ending, or one mercifully quick, but we can find still the faithful few who bear their suffering patiently as their lonely sacrifice. Many want friends and families around, others prefer a quiet exit, but most, one suspects, want to leave a memory of their final days that will comfort those who remain, memories that will complete their life story. Dying brings a time, too we should not forget, to forgive, and to be forgiven.

Virginia Woolf on Virginia Woolf: Her Cries of Joy and Longing - Part One

Barbara Young — Fri 06 Sep 2002 22:50:02 -0400

The Terri Schiavo Case: Introduction

George A. Trone - info@yjhm.org — Fri 15 Apr 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Awakening

Paul H. Rockey - paul.rockey@ama-assn.org — Fri 15 Apr 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Reading to Bette

Paul H. Rockey - paul.rockey@ama-assn.org — Fri 15 Apr 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Physical Medicine and Spiritual Medicine in Islam: An Interweaving

Nurdeen Deuraseh - inasanis@hotmail.com — Fri 19 Jan 2007 11:31:00 EST

Spiritual medicine is a crucial branch of Islamic medicine known, in Islamic medical literature, as al-Tibb al-Ruhani or Tibb al-Qalb. Although Al-Tibb al-Ruhani concerns mainly with spiritual and psychological health, however, spiritual medicine cannot be separated completely with physical medicine (al-tibb al-jismani) since man's construction is from both soul and body.

Why Not Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants?

Howard Spiro - howard.spiro@yale.edu — Fri 2 Nov 2007 20:23:00 EDT

A deaf medical student some time ago suggested that she could become a cardiologist, since that profession has come to prefer visual diagnostics like echocardiography and cardiac catheterization over the stethoscope. Her ambition foretells the time when paralyzed surgeons can carry out operations by blinking their eyes to guide robots to the cutting and sewing. Sixty years ago, when I was a medical student, that would have seemed the stuff of science-fiction. But not today!

Kohelet Moments

Rabbi Elana Kanter - elanakanter@cox.net — Fri 28 Jul 2006 12:00:00 EST

As human beings, we have experiences that challenge us to the core, that test us so deeply that we question the very essence of who we are. The nature of our response to the experience often teaches us about ourselves, and forces us to grow in ways that we never would have otherwise. I do not mean to say that 'tests' in life are welcome, nor should they be. An illness or a tragedy is something we would never choose as a learning path. But when the illness hits or the tragedy happens, the critical issue is how we respond to the trial, how and what we can learn from it.

Relationship Medicine

Tomlin J. Paul - tomlin.paul@uwimona.com — Fri 28 Jul 2006 12:00:00 EST

As a family doctor for over 15 years I believe that I have developed my own style and approach to working with patients. It may not be unique but no doubt is influenced by my personality and philosophy. My waiting room is often full not because I am seeing a lot of patients, but because I am seeing a lot in my patients. I am likely to spend more time with patients than the others in the medical centre where I work. I am nearly always the last to leave at nights and even when I tell myself that this is a "quickie" consultation something seems to come up that takes me along a path of reflection and discussion with the patient. I have tried over the years mentally cajoling myself to change. Indeed there is pressure to change. A waiting room of frowning patients and staff irritation with working overtime are among the list. But I have found it hard to change my approach. There is some intrinsic comfort with it, some kind of inner resonance.

Wheelchair

Paul Rousseau - palliativedoctor@aol.com — Fri 28 Jul 2006 22:50:02 -0400

Medicine and Women's Clothing and Leisure Activities in Victorian Canada

Eileen O'Connor - eoconnor@uottawa.ca — Fri 8 Jun 2007 21:29:00 EDT

North American physicians attained different kinds of authority in the nineteenth century: a "cultural authority" which implied the power to define health, illness and healing, and a "social authority," which led the public to accept their advice. This article will focus on the development of physicians’ "cultural authority" in the field of women's fashionable dress and leisure through their studies and experiments in heat regulation and professional education and training in Gynaecology.

The Patient As Teacher

Cynthia Pincus Russell — Mon 02 Jul 2001 22:50:02 -0400

When Doctors Get Sick: A Reprise

Judith A. Brice — Mon 08 May 2000 22:50:02 -0400

When Doctors Get Sick: A Reprise

Maurice Fox — Mon 08 May 2000 22:50:02 -0400

When Doctors Get Sick: A Reprise

Robert Scheig — Mon 08 May 2000 22:50:02 -0400

When Doctors Get Sick: A Reprise

Ronald Karpick — Mon 08 May 2000 22:50:02 -0400

When Doctors Get Sick: Introduction

Harvey Mandell and Howard Spiro — Mon 08 May 2000 22:50:02 -0400

Me 'n Andy

Barbara J. Bache-Wiig - jorwig@execpc.com — Mon 11 Oct 2004 12:00:00 GMT

House Calls

Douglas Krohn - dougkrohn@optonline.net — Mon 11 Oct 2004 22:50:02 -0400

The Error

Marc D. Rothman - marc.rothman@yale.edu — Mon 19 May 2003 22:50:02 -0400

Paradigms and Publications: A Protest

Jack W. Love - jwlove@cardiomend.com — Mon 19 May 2008 21:27:00 EDT

Almost all journals seem to share a reluctance to publish new thoughts and theories that threaten to overturn current thinking about a subject, at least until the new concept is established, with or without their help. As a consequence, journals, almost without exception, only publish articles that build on accepted knowledge and theory. An investigator who thinks he has evidence that could cause a possible major modification of an accepted concept should be prepared for rejection when he submits his proposal for publication. I have recently had such an experience.

Preparing Successful Future Physicians to Meet Emerging Social Needs in Humanitarian Ways

Michael Basso, Jr. - cthha1@ix.netcom.com — Mon 22 Nov 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Regarding Writing the Medical Experience

Jeff McCallum - jeff@marksman.net — Mon 23 Jul 2007 20:45:00 EDT

I have, until the moment of this writing, failed to understand the meaning and value of "an open letter." However, following my second week-long experience at Dr. Davis Watts' *Writing the Medical Experience* workshop, I am moved to write, to loudly exclaim both my personal thanks and my wish to urge others to attend this week of magical freedom.

A Need for Collaboration in Studies of Aging

Roland C. Clement — Mon 25 Aug 2003 22:50:02 -0400

A Medical Fairytale

James L. Glazer - jamesglazer@hotmail.com — Sat 01 Mar 2003 22:50:02 -0400

In Sickness as in Health

Brian Deady - brian_deady@shaw.ca — Sat 01 May 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Cognitive Therapy

Douglas Krohn - dougkrohn@optonline.net — Sat 01 May 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Bio-psycho-social-tecnho-spiritual Considerations Regarding the 'Human Stress-strain System' in Chronic Disease Processes

Michael Basso, Jr. - cthha1@ix.netcom.com — Sat 05 Feb 2005 22:50:02 -0400

The University of the Future- Based upon Holism and Humanitarian Constructs

Michael Basso, Jr. - cthha1@ix.netcom.com — Sat 08 Jan 2005 22:50:02 -0400

'Blazing Like Disease': John Berryman and the Dis-Ease of Suicide

Clare Emily Clifford - clifford@bama.ua.edu — Sat 20 Nov 2004 22:50:02 -0400

Spirituality and End-of-Life Care

Howard Spiro - howard.spiro@yale.edu — Sat 21 Jul 2007 22:50:02 -0400

Spirituality and End-of-Life Care

Howardo Spiro - howard.spiro@yale.edu — Sat 21 Jul 2007 22:56:00 EDT

A while back the Hastings Center published a long lament about why changing end-of-life considerations had so bogged down. The collected observations are all wise if not always consistent with views the authors had expressed many years ago, but to change is the stuff of wisdom.

Pulled from the Team - A Visit to Jeremy's Cardiologist

Jeremy Daniels - jdaniels@cw.bc.ca — Sat 22 Apr 2006 12:00:00 EST

The following is his response to being asked to quit the team: ... "The whole reason God put me on Earth was to play basketball for the Chicago Bulls", I objected. Surely he would see, surely he would understand, surely I could talk some sense into this man! But I couldn't, he wouldn't budge, and mom was totally taking his side! That's just like her, she always agrees with whatever Dr. MacPherson says.

Poetry and Medicine

Rose Bromberg — Sat 22 Apr 2006 12:00:00 EST

Poetry and medicine are inextricably linked, and more medical schools are introducing poetry courses into their curriculums. The purpose of these courses is to teach medical students to become more sensitive, explore their feelings, express themselves, and alleviate stress, therefore producing better healthcare providers.

The Benevolent Doctor

Rev. John W. Love - frjlove@gmail.com — Sat 8 Sep 2007 15:54:00 EDT

I would like to propose to you today the following: doctors are in an almost unique position to mirror God's goodness and love the world through benevolent helping. Now, just to focus things here, I want to tell you that I am not proposing anything new, especially to a group of Catholic doctors. There is, however, a twist to the concept that I hope will prove interesting and food for further thought. For this, I rely today almost entirely on the insights of one theologian. He is a living German Catholic moral philosopher by the name of Robert Spaemann, and he has written extensively on the subject of benevolence as it relates to our happiness.

Laocoon

Jeff Seymour - jeffseymour@aya.yale.edu — Sun 02 Nov 2003 22:50:02 -0400

War and Peace

David Solarz — Sun 08 Feb 2004 22:50:02 -0400

The Philosophy of Philosophy with a View on Health

Michael Basso, Jr. - cthha1@ix.netcom.com — Sun 13 Mar 2005 22:50:02 -0400

Virginia Woolf on Virginia Woolf: Her Cries of Joy and Longing - Part Three

Barbara Young — Sun 15 Dec 2002 22:50:02 -0400

The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine

Thales To Engel And The Lost Pain Of Loss

Is this death?

Against All Odds

Watermark by Jacquelyn Pope

Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life by Allen Shawn

Re Verse: Essays on Poetry and Poets by David R. Slavitt

Bridge and Tunnel by John Hennessy

Squandermania by Don Share.

Transcending Motion

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen.

What Really Matters -- Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger by Arthur Kleinman

Final Exam by Pauline Chen

How People Change: The Short Story as Case History by William Tucker

You Don't Have To Be Famous: How To Write Your Life Story by Steve Zousmer

Caring for Mother: A Daughter's Long Goodbye by Virginia Stem Owens

Bill by Bill Rector

Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definitions of Disease by Jeremy A. Greene

Love and the Care of the Patient

Hope and the Care of the Dying Patient: A Catholic, Christian Perspective

Faith and Care of the Patient: An Islamic Perspective on Critical Illness

Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient

Reconciliation at the End of Life

Reflections on the Possibility of Gratitude as a Christian Virtue for Patients and Caregivers

Gratitude As Viewed in Hinduism

Healing and Religion - A Protestant Perspective

Healing and Religion - A Jewish Perspective

Hope and the Care of the Patient: A Jewish View

African American Christian Spirituality in the Face of Illness

The Role of Love in the Treatment of the Patient: A Protestant View

Forgiveness: Spiritual and Medical Implications

Dignity and Patient Care: An Islamic Perspective

Suffering and the Christian Tradition

Suffering and the Buddhist Tradition

Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient

Care of the Patient (2003): Table of Contents

Shame in the Context of Illness - An Islamic Perspective

Fear in the Islamic Tradition

Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient

Control in the Context of Illness - A Catholic Perspective

Shame and Illness - A Jewish Perspective

Apathy in the Context of Illness - A Catholic Perspective

American Protestant Fears

Apathy in the Context of Illness - A Humanistic Buddhist Perspective

Care of the Patient (2004): Table of Contents

Sadness

Control

Denial in the Context of Illness- An Evangelical Protestant Perspective

Guilt in the Context of Illness- A Protestant Perspective

Sadness in the Context of Illness: A Jewish Perspective

Overview- Loneliness in the Context of Illness

Denial in the Context of Illness - A Hindu Perspective

Loneliness in the Context of Illness and Dying- A Catholic Perspective

Visiting the Sick- Jewish Wisdom and Practice Speak to the Loneliness of Illness

Anger in the Context of Illness- An Anglican Perspective

Anger in the Context of Illness- Perspectives from Jewish Tradition

Dying Prolonged?

Virginia Woolf on Virginia Woolf: Her Cries of Joy and Longing - Part One

The Terri Schiavo Case: Introduction

Awakening

Reading to Bette

Physical Medicine and Spiritual Medicine in Islam: An Interweaving

Why Not Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants?

Kohelet Moments

Relationship Medicine

Wheelchair

Medicine and Women's Clothing and Leisure Activities in Victorian Canada

The Patient As Teacher

When Doctors Get Sick: A Reprise

When Doctors Get Sick: A Reprise

When Doctors Get Sick: A Reprise

When Doctors Get Sick: A Reprise

When Doctors Get Sick: Introduction

Me 'n Andy

House Calls

The Error

Paradigms and Publications: A Protest

Preparing Successful Future Physicians to Meet Emerging Social Needs in Humanitarian Ways

Regarding *Writing the Medical Experience*

A Need for Collaboration in Studies of Aging

Regarding Writing the Medical Experience