Published May, 2008
By Angela Belli
Publisher: Kent State University Press
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Assembles plays that demonstrate how theatrical form can open discussion linking medicine to the larger society. The author includes essays to each of the works as well as a general introduction that presents an overview of the issues discussed in the anthology, and their relevance to our culture, and their value in providing thematic material.

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Published March, 2007
By Jay Baruch
Publisher: Kent State University Press
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Presents a series of clinically based essays that aim to give voice to a variety of people who, faced with difficult moral choices, and find themselves making disturbing self-discoveries.

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Published December, 2006
By Todd L. Savitt and Todd Savitt
Publisher: Kent State University Press
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Presents essays on the medical history of African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially in the South. This collection examines a variety of aspects of African American medical history, including health and illnesses, medical experimentation, early medical schools and medical professionals, and slave life insurance.

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Published February, 2006
By Judy Schaefer
Publisher: Kent State University Press
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Nurses see different things and experience patients and health care issues in different contexts. This anthology is a compilation of nurse-poets' work, which is accompanied by their commentaries about their poetry, their work, and their lives. This work aims to add significantly to the body of literature that connects medicine and the humanities.

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Published January, 2006
By Albert Howard Carter
Publisher: Kent State University Press
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Explores the meanings of the human heart as interpreted by two traditions: medical science and the much older cultural traditions. This book interlaces medical and linguistic information with the stories of four heart patients, each with different illnesses and different personal approaches to healing.

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