title: Literature and Medicine: the human experience.
abstract: The study of literature and medicine has developed into an independent discipline over the last 20 years. Literature and medicine are both humanistic arts, involving issues of morality, emotion, and philosophy.
authors.affiliation: Humanities Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mathiasen
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D010686:Philosophy, Medical