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syn·apse
(si'-naps', si-naps') noun
A specialized junction where transmission of information takes place between a nerve fibre and another nerve cell, or between a nerve fibre and a muscle or gland cell.
[New Latin synapsis, from Greek, juncture, from synaptein to fasten together, from syn- + haptein to fasten]
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Literature
& Medicine Wins National Awards
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announcement ::: read more
Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care®,
a program developed by the Maine Humanities Council in 1997, was one of
ten programs nationwide to be awarded a grant by the Society for the Arts
in Healthcare/Johnson & Johnson Grant Program and has received a national
award from the Federation of State Humanities Councils.
Simply Listening
feature article ::: read more
Editor Abigail Cutler explores
the value of the Literature & Medicine seminars with participants
and in the larger context of health care.
“Although many of my colleagues and fellow participants disagreed
with both my beliefs and my actions, in the seminar we were all fellow
health care professionals — some of us were fellow sons and even
fellow Catholics. We all had to listen to each other — they had to
listen to me. That session was truly important for me as a doctor and
as a father’s son. Talking through the issue...brought me closer to my
colleagues.”
From the Hospital
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for Literature & Medicine liaisons ::: read more
In this issue, Dina McKelvy — liaison and health sciences librarian
at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford, Maine — reflects on
her experience organizing and participating in the program. By exploring
the different types of personalities the program attracts, Dina illuminates
how Literature & Medicine brings them together.
Must Reads
::: facilitators
review readings you don’t want to miss! ::: read more
Find out why Donald Hall’s Without is a good book to read in Literature
& Medicine seminars. In this issue, facilitator Larissa Picard
of Vermont shares her appreciation for Hall’s poetry.
Eye Witness
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Physician Carrie Nankervis, Literature & Medicine participant
at Central DuPage Hospital in Illinois, shares her experience as a member
of the state’s first group to host the program.
From the Inside
Out
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“As powerful as medicine is, with all of our technologies and our
treatments, I think the most important thing we can give is our hearts,
by being empathetic and compassionate care providers.”
An interview with physician, poet & essayist Rafael Campo, by Ingrid Ahlgren (Reprinted with permission from the newsletter of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.)
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