{{Infobox journal , title = Literature and Medicine , cover = Literature and medicine.gif , editor = Michael Blackie , discipline =

Literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

, language = English , abbreviation = Lit. Med. , publisher =

Johns Hopkins University Press The Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and is the oldest continuously running university press in the United States. The press publi ...

, country = United States , frequency = Biannually , history = 1982-present , openaccess = , impact = , impact-year = , website = http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/literature_and_medicine/ , link1 = http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/literature_and_medicine/ , link1-name = Online access , link2 = , link2-name = , RSS = , atom = , JSTOR = , OCLC = 31871349 , LCCN = , CODEN = , ISSN = 0278-9671 , eISSN = 1080-6571 ''Literature and Medicine'' is an

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...

founded in 1982. It is devoted to researching and understanding the interfaces between literary and medical knowledge. Literary and cultural texts are used to examine concerns related to illness, trauma, the body, and other medical issues. Articles are provided by experts in a variety of fields in both medicine and the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

and

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...

. There are two issues each year, one general, one thematic. The journal is published biannually in May and November by the

. Circulation is 497 and the average length of an issue is 164 pages.

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Official website ''Literature and Medicine''
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Project MUSE Project MUSE, a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books. Project MUSE contains digital humanities and social science content from over 250 university ...

Literary magazines published in the United States Publications established in 1982 General medical journals Biannual journals English-language journals Johns Hopkins University Press academic journals 1982 establishments in Maryland

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