"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 The ..."
"In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese 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 ..."
"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 The ..."
The Other Man Was Me A Voyage to the New World by RafaelCampo Published by Arte Publico Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61192-244-8, ISBN: 1-61192-244-5
"Rafael Campo. IX. My Patient's Heart Attack His room is just like Mrs. Hanson's
room. The window barely keeps the city out. ... I see The disappointment on his
wedding day, The deep resentment of his son who's gay— They look alike— the
..."
"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."
Comfort Measures Only New and Selected Poems, 1994-2016 (Hardback) by RafaelCampo Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2018 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0007-5, ISBN: 1-4780-0007-4
"In Comfort Measures Only, Rafael Campo bears witness to the unspeakable beauty bound up with human suffering."
Comfort Measures Only New and Selected Poems, 1994-2016 by RafaelCampo Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2018 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0021-1, ISBN: 1-4780-0021-X
"In Comfort Measures Only, Rafael Campo bears witness to the unspeakable beauty bound up with human suffering. Gathered from his over twenty-year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-nine poems—thirty-one of which have never been previously published in a collection—pull back the curtain in the ER, laying bare our pain and joining us all in spellbinding moments of pathos. The poet, who is also truly a healer, revives language itself— ..."
Comfort Measures Only by RafaelCampo Paperback, Published 2016 by The Hippocrates Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9572571-8-4, ISBN: 0-9572571-8-X
"A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Their essays, which range ..."
Alternative Medicine by RafaelCampo 104 Pages, Published 2013 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-7713-9, ISBN: 0-8223-7713-6
"The Enemy (2007) “Rafael Campo writes tough, questioning, rueful, exquisite,
truehearted poems that resist nostalgia while testing the transformative power
ofbeauty. In perfectly wrought poem after poem, he explores the 'honor'
ofsacrifice ..."
Alternative Medicine by RafaelCampo Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2013 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5587-8, ISBN: 0-8223-5587-6
"In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to t ..."
Alternative Medicine(1st Edition) by RafaelCampo Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2013 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5573-1, ISBN: 0-8223-5573-6
"In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to t ..."
"In this moving and funny memoir, award-winning playwright Guillermo Reyes untangles his life as the secretly illegitimate son of a Chilean immigrant to the United States and as a young man struggling with sexual repression, body image, and gay identity. But this is a double-decker memoir that also tells the poignant, bittersweet, and adventurous story of Guillermo’s mother, María, who supports herself and her son cleaning houses and the ..."
The Enemy(1st Edition) by RafaelCampo Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2007 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3960-1, ISBN: 0-8223-3960-9
"In his fifth collection of poetry, the physician and award-winning writer Rafael Campo considers what it means to be the enemy in America today. Using the empathetic medium of a poetry grounded in the sentient physical body we all share, he writes of a country endlessly at war--not only against the presumed enemy abroad but also with its own troubled conscience. Yet whether he is addressing the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the battle against ..."
The Enemy by RafaelCampo Paperback, 113 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-8957-6, ISBN: 0-8223-8957-6
"In his fifth collection of poetry, the physician and award-winning writer Rafael Campo considers what it means to be the enemy in America today. Using the empathetic medium of a poetry grounded in the sentient physical body we all share, he writes of a country endlessly at war—not only against the presumed enemy abroad but also with its own troubled conscience. Yet whether he is addressing the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the battle against t ..."
The Enemy (Hardback) by RafaelCampo Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2007 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3862-8, ISBN: 0-8223-3862-9
"A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of ..."
The Healing Art(1st Edition) A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry by RafaelCampo Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2003 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05727-0, ISBN: 0-393-05727-5
"A celebrated poet and doctor connects—through favorite verses and stories from his life and practice—poetry and healing. As a respected and much-loved doctor, Rafael Campo shares favorite poems with patients on his rounds. After all, incantation has played a role in healing for millennia, displaced only recently by modern scientific obsessions. In this luminous book, Campo restores the link between poetry and healing, offering "pharma ..."
"''I know of no poet writing today with more courage and compassion than Rafael
Campo. Like the practicing physician that he is, Campo writes poems that heal
artfully—or honestly face the impossibility of healing. Here we find sonnets for the
..."