Introduction

(Source: Literature and Medicine 28, no. 2 [Fall 2009])

The Literature and Medicine journal is a scholarly, interdisciplinary journal
devoted to exploring connections between literary and medical knowledge and
understanding. Issues of disease, illness, health, medical science, trauma, and the
body are examined through literary, medical, and cultural texts.

The journals readership includes a wide variety of healthcare professionals as
well as scholars of literature, history, writing, narrative, rhetoric, trauma, culture,
and critical theory.