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Praise for The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review

"A kaleidoscope of creativity…unsentimental and sometimes unpredictable." — JAMA

"A high quality magazine…one of the few journals that celebrate the creative results of incorporating writing into the practice of medicine." — Poets & Writers

"The nation's most venerable public hospital and physician training ground has turned to literature to help its doctors better understand their patients, and themselves." — The Washington Post

"Part of a national trend in medical education for schools to use literature to teach doctors how to write better and clearer case histories and to emphasize more with patients." — The New York Times

"Explores the connective tissue between the practice of medicine and literature in a way that is sensitive, surprising, and compassionate." — NewPages.com

The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review

By Danielle Ofri, Editor

Price: $16.95 Trade Paperback
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-934137-04-8

Founded just six years ago, Bellevue Literary Review is already widely recognized as a rare forum for emerging and celebrated writers — Julia Alvarez, Raphael Campo, Rick Moody and Abraham Verghese among them — on issues of health and healing. Gathered here are poignant and prize-winning stories, essays, and poems, the voices of patients and those who care for them that form the journal's remarkable dialogue on "humanity and the human experience."

Danielle Ofri, MD, Ph.D., author of Incidental Findings and Singular Intimacies, is the Editor-in-Chief of Bellevue Literary Review. She lives in New York City. For more information please visit www.danielleofri.com

View a free study guide on Literature and Medicine using original works from the The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review anthology. According to the Bellevue Literary Review, "these readings provide a framework for considering the illness experience from a variety of perspectives, ... [and] will be useful for teachers of literature, ethics, medical/nursing students, social workers, as well as for health care professionals, adult continuing education courses, and general reading groups."

320 pages / 6 x 9 / Nonfiction/Literature