Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2004. Music from Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems. He is also the author of four vol-umes of poetry- In All This Rain, Renaming the Streets, The Smell of Matches, and Music from Apartment 8-and coeditor of On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Es-says, a widely read anthology of literature and medicine.Stone J. Hooray for knowledge and language and the joining of science and art.-Ellen GilchristĪbout the Author John Stone, M.D., (1936-2008) a noted lecturer and advocate for the teach-ing of humanities during medical education, was a cardiologist and professor at Emory University School of Medicine.
What a joy when a medical doctor can tell us what he knows and make us understand and believe in the good in ourselves. This book should be required reading for every person who aspires to be a physician-it makes me proud that I am a doctor.-Ferrol Sams, author of Run with the Horsemen How fine our clinics would be, and how splendid our literature, were all doc-tors and writers alike to have the heart of this Stone.-Gerald Weissmann, editor-in-chief of MD magazine and author of The Woods Hole Cantata In In the Country of Hearts, the art of medicine is alive and well.- "Atlanta Journal and Constitution" has used his senses well.- "New York Times Book Review" Stone remains firmly attached to the humanness of its endeavors. He is himself a warmhearted man who fills his book with fascinating true stories.-Annie DillardĪs he explicates and celebrates the possibilities of modern medicine, Dr. Through fascinating case histories, Stone reveals the human side of medicine, uncovering, the world of emotions felt by doctors and by those who seek their help.Īs a cardiologist, John Stone knows the intricate mechanics of the heart as a literary man, he suggests the mystery beyond the devices. In this wonderful collection of true stories, Stone fluently translates the language of cardiology into one we can all understand as he examines the relationship between the physical heart-the driving pump that nourishes the body-and the metaphorical heart. About the Book In the tradition of Oliver Sacks and Lewis Thomas comes this fascinating book of essays about the two hearts that beat in all of us-the literal one and its fraternal twin, the metaphorical heart.īook Synopsis A gifted poet as well as a renowned cardiologist and medical professor, John Stone eloquently bridges the seeming expanse between science and the arts.
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