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Medical Humanities Do Not Humanize Doctors: The Trouble with Trying to Soften Hard Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Jonathan M. Metzl
Jonathan M. Metzl*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,” William Wordsworth famously wrote in the Preface to the 1802 version of Lyrical Ballads. “[I]t is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically it may be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, ‘that he looks before and after.‘ He is the rock of defence of human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with him relationship and love” (xxxvii).

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Forum: Conference Debates
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PMLA , Volume 124 , Issue 3 , May 2009 , pp. 951 - 953
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2009

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Works Cited

William, Wordsworth. Preface. Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. London: Longman and Rees, 1802. i–lxiv. Print.Google Scholar