Why would Granta, a literary quarterly, publish an issue called Medicine? At the September
launch in London, editor John Freeman described the collection as the collision between the …

Why would Granta, a literary quarterly, publish an issue called Medicine? At the September
launch in London, editor John Freeman described the collection as the collision between the …

As I read Charon's words, images of my dying aunt flooded my thoughts—a dam had broken
and I was engulfed in painful memories. I remember lying next to her bedside, staring into …

new York: Oxford university Press, 2006. 266 pp. Hardcover, $39.95; paperback, $19.95.
more than a few years ago, in a hospital far from where my colleague and i each lived, we …

Sharon Olds: Thank you so much. For those generous welcoming words, for your invitation. I
thought that we could have a conversation as well as a reading and a bit of description. So …

Maura Spiegel and Rita Charon as we continue to explore how stories work, and the work
that stories do in the sphere of medicine, we find, in this issue of Literature and Medicine, a …

The articles, essays, and creative work in this general issue all, fortuitously, deal with
aspects of the same subject: cultural taboos surrounding illness and the ways in which art …

It often seems that personal narratives are at odds with medical care. As doctors, we have
limited time with our patients. As patients, we often struggle to feel heard by our physicians …

Coming back to the Maine-land, our heads did not stop buzzing with excitement for a
Narrative Medicine-related project. This was an experience we certainly wanted to share …

What can be known, we often feel, is what can be narrated. Sometimes this is not much.'But
now', reads the last line of Ian McEwan's Atonement,'I must sleep'(2001: 372). Briony Tallis …