Program

Public Programs: Special Projects

Period of Performance

9/1/1999 - 8/31/2002

Funding Totals

$250,000.00 (approved)
$250,000.00 (awarded)


Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care

FAIN: GP-22153-99

Maine Humanities Council (Portland, ME 04102-1012)
Victoria B. Bonebakker (Project Director: February 1999 to February 2003)

A reading and discussion program for health care providers and policymakers at 30 hospitals in Maine, using literary and historical texts to examine the relationship between the patient and the medical professional.