New Publication

The ASBH was kind enough to send me (and all of its other members?) a gratis copy of the new book Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy. The blurb on the back of the book reads as follows:

Drawn from the popular «Narrative Matters» column in the journal Health Affairs, these forty-six articles focus on such topics as the hard financial realities of medical insurance, AIDS, a*sisted suicide, marketing drugs, genetic engineering, organ transplants, and ethnic and racial disparities in the health care system.

The book is edited by Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., Ellen Ficklen, and Kyna Rubin, and features a foreword by Abraham Verghese, M.D. This looks to be a terrific read and the subtitle alone is a microcosm of the personal essay
That Name.