title: Ways of knowing: Howard Stein's border-crossing use of poetry to interrogate clinical medicine, medical education, and health care organizations.
abstract: This article explores how medical anthropologist Howard Stein's poetry and his unique practice of sharing this poetry with the patients, physicians, and administrators who inspired it create ways of knowing that are at once revelatory and emancipatory. Stein's writing shows readers that poetry can be considered as a form of data and as a method of investigation into the processes of the human soul. Furthermore, it represents a kind of intervention that invites health professional readers toward connection, bridge building, and solidarity with their patients and with one another. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: UC Irvine School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shapiro
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology / Q000379:methods*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology / Q000639:trends; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D000078329:Workforce; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*