During the clinic visit, the patient map unfurls, their hands leaving little clues.

New books highlighting illness poetry, the toll on compassion extracted during medical training, and the emotional burden of illness on family members 

Children’s literature offers a lens into public perception and experience of childhood infectious diseases as we face a resurgence of these same illnesses today. 

Edvard Munch transformed personal family tragedies into haunting paintings that reveal illness, grief, isolation, and enduring emotional suffering.