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In the Shadow of Asclepius brings together poems written over a forty-year career of teaching and living in American medicine as a medical, psychoanalytic, organizational, and applied anthropologist. Howard Stein’s poems from American medicine are the fruit of careful listening, observing, and often bearing witness to people’s experiences and stories. Many poems in this book come from Stein’s love of and long familiarity with the culturescapes and landscapes of Oklahoma. Read more

About Howard Stein

Howard Stein, a medical, psychoanalytic, organizational, and applied anthropologist, and psychohistorian, is Professor and Special Assistant to the Chair, in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, in Oklahoma City, where he has taught since 1978. Raised in a steel factory town near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he has fallen in love with rural Oklahoma and its wheat farming and ranching culture, and has come to specialize in rural medicine.
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Excerpt from the Book

Change accrues like ice
Wraps itself around
Tree limbs and branches
Until they sag.
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