The Healing Muse Volume 9 Author:Deirdre Neilen, Rebecca Garden, and Kathy Faber-Langendoen, eds. The Healing Muse is a collection of short stories, poetry, narrative, and visual art that focuses on the themes of illness, medicine, and the body. The Muse creates a unique starting point for discussion about illness, medicine, and the body by contextualizing these themes in narrative. This approach can help people who are experiencing ill... more »ness, as well as their friends, family, ad health care providers, to understand the personal, social, professional, and institutional complexities of healing.« less