Founded | 2009 |
---|---|
Founders | Donald Singer and Michael Hulse |
Type | Health, humanities, history, education |
Focus | Poetry and medicine |
Website | www |
The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was founded in 2009 by Donald Singer and Michael Hulse. The founders "wished to draw together national and international perspectives on three major historical and contemporary themes uniting the disciplines of poetry and medicine: medicine as inspiration for the writings of poets; effects of poetic creativity on the experience of illness by patients, their families, friends, and carers; and poetry as therapy".[1]