Nursing and Humanities offers a way to think through the relationship between nursing and the humanities, in the context of the pluralistic nature of a practice profession that requires exact scientific and technical knowledge applied in complex, dynamic situations of human relating.

Graham McCaffrey is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Canada. He is Assistant Editor for the Journal of Applied Hermeneutics.

Introduction. 1. Nursing and the Humanities: Medical and Health Humanities 2. Nursing and Humanities: History and Uses 3. What is Nursing? 4. Epistemic Differences in Nursing 5. Cognitive Science and Experience 6. Compassion and the Pharmakon of the Health Humanities 7. Prose and Poetry in Nursing 8.Nursing, Buddhism, Interdependence 9.Nursing and Humanities in the Age of the Post-Human 10. Conclusion