Combining first-person narration, scholarly reflections, and advocacy, this volumefeatures conversations with physician-scholars Rita Charon and Jonathan M. Metzl andprovides a holistic view of the human interactions and structural forces that definehealthcare today. The contributors afford us opportunities to reconsider healththrough a poetic and political lense and help us envision a more socially informedand just practice of medicine.

Combining first-person narration, scholarly reflections, and advocacy, this volumefeatures conversations with physician-scholars Rita Charon and Jonathan M. Metzl andprovides a holistic view of the human interactions and structural forces that definehealthcare today. The contributors afford us opportunities to reconsider healththrough a poetic and political lense and help us envision a more socially informedand just practice of medicine.

Combining first-person narration, scholarly reflections, and advocacy, this volumefeatures conversations with physician-scholars Rita Charon and Jonathan M. Metzl andprovides a holistic view of the human interactions and structural forces that definehealthcare today. The contributors afford us opportunities to reconsider healththrough a poetic and political lense and help us envision a more socially informedand just practice of medicine.