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Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In Health Humanities Reader, editors Tess Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field-and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection's contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences.With warmth and humour, critical acumen and ethical insight, Health Humanities Reader truly humanizes the field of medicine. Its accessible language and broad scope offers something for everyone from the experienced medical professional to a reader interested in health and illness.

Medicine is the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences,\" the late Edmund Pellegrino often said, paraphrasing Eric Wolf 's thoughts on anthropology. Thus, both humanists and practitioners, particularly those with several years of experience in the field, should welcome this book. It consists of nearly 50 chapters, some of which deal with classic medical humanities topics, such as the notions of health and disease and the theory of the body.

EDUCATING FOR PROFESSIONALISM: CREATING A CULTURE OF HUMANISM IN MEDICAL EDUCATION Edited by Delese Wear and Janet Bickel. 215 pp. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2000. $42.95. ISBN 0-87745-741-7.