In this program, health care workers reflect on issues central to caring for people through monthly facilitated book discussions.
Literature and Medicine began at the Maine Humanities Council and Vermont Humanities brought the innovative program to Vermont in 2003.
Participating Hospitals
A Sampling of Literature and Medicine Books
- A Dog Walks Into A Nursing Home by Sue Halpern
- Bag Balm and Duct Tape: Tales of a Vermont Doctor by Beach Conger
- Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference, by Stephen Trzeciak & Anthony Mazzarelli
- How Do You Feel? One Doctor’s Search For Humanity in Medicine by Jessi Gold
- Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, A Deadly Disease by Jason Dearen
- The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick by Michael Bernstein, Charlotte Blease, Cosimer Locher, & Walter Brown
- This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite
- The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution by Dixon Chibanda
Questions?
Contact us at community@vermonthumanities.org.
