Teaching Literature and Medicine

Scholars from both fields offer instructors general guidelines and specific resources for designing and teaching courses on medicine in literature, which are becoming widespread in undergraduate curricula, medical schools, and continuing-education programs throughout the US and Canada. They consider a variety of approaches; model courses; specific texts, authors, and genres; popular readings; the values of texts in medical education and practice; and bibliographic resources. There is no subject index. Paper edition (unseen), $22.00. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR