Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Dr. Arthur Kleinman

  • The professor and the playwright on what it means to care

    Fergus ShanahanWilton, Cork, Ireland Illness words are seldom simple. They can hurt or heal in different contexts or change their meaning over time. Nor are they always understood the same way by patients and doctors. Borrowing from Philip Larkin, it is “difficult to find words at once true and kind, or not untrue and not…