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Description of  Literary Studies and Well-Being: Structures of Experience in the Worldly Work of Literature and Healthcare

The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself. During the past twenty years, much admirable work in the health humanities has focused upon what studies of literature contribute to the understandings and the practical work-the worldly work-of healthcare. Such a project aims at developing healthcare practitioners who bring greater care to those who come to them ailing or in fear or faced with terrible suffering. Read more