The Maine Humanities Council is thrilled to announce the publication of Imagine What It’s Like: A Literature and Medicine Anthology, edited by Ruth Nadelhaft. Many years in the making, Imagine What It’s Like is very different from the other literature and medicine anthologies available.

In it, you will find:

• a wider range and greater number of readings than any other literature and medicine anthology;
• a great diversity of voices, from many times and places, addressing a myriad of conditions, topics and issues;
• the full scope of literary genres, from poetry and fiction to plays and memoirs;
• many selections that you may not have encountered before; and
• the editor’s useful commentary, which provides context for both the individual selections as well as the other literature of interest to the field of literature and medicine.

Imagine What It’s Like is perfect for:

• Literature & Medicine groups, providing a comprehensive volume, valuable standing on its own or as a complement to other texts.
• Students (and their instructors) from all the health care professions.
• General readers will find the anthology hard to put down, capturing as it does the human condition that we all share.
• Download a copy of the Table of Contents (225Kb pdf).

The University of Hawai’i Press is publishing the anthology with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Maine Humanities Council, the Morton Family Foundation, and the Hawai’i Humanities Council. We at the Maine Humanities Council are also grateful to Craig Howes, Director of the Center for Biographical Research at the University of Hawai’i for his help and interest in the project.

Imagine What It’s Like: A Literature and Medicine Anthology
© 2008 Maine Humanities Council