A leading journal, published by Johns Hopkins U. (one of America’s first and today premier medical schools), is Literature and Medicine:
A leading medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine, often includes literary reflections on medicine. For years, the immunologist and celebrated writer, Lewis Thomas, contributed a regular essay, under the general heading, “Notes of a Biology Watcher.” Some of these essays were collected in volumes, including one still beloved by doctors, Lives of a Cell.
Other medical journals:
Other sources:
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Bellvue Literary Review
The Bellevue Literary Review, founded by Danielle Ofri, is housed at NYU Langone Hospital. It’s a leading literary journal publishing poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, and essays.
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Ars Medica
A biannual literary journal that explores the interface between the arts and healing, and examines what makes medicine an art.
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The Healing Muse
An annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University's Center for Bioethics & Humanities. Includes fiction, poetry, narratives, essays, memoirs and visual art, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine, illness, disability and healing.
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New York Times (NexisUni)
The New York Times covers current medical and public health issues.
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New York Review of Books
Oliver Sacks, among other doctor-writers, published in The New York Review of Books.
