Tucson Festival of Books

Medicine and Meaning in Today's World


Authors Jonathan Gleason and Wendy Johnson share insights on navigating sickness and building networks of care that bring hope and meaning to the healing process, while exploring practical wisdom about how we can heal together.


Panelists
Jonathan Gleason

Jonathan Gleason is author of "Field Guide to Falling Ill," a collection of essays exploring the human lives behind the corporate, legal and cultural practices of medicine. It has been described as a layered, reflective, and unusually poised debut and was the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize....

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Wendy Johnson

Dr. Wendy Johnson is an activist, clinician and writer whose career included scaling up HIV treatment in Mozambique, overseeing an urban health department, and directing Santa Fe's main community clinic....

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Books:
Field Guide to Falling Ill
Essays
Jonathan Gleason
Science / Medicine / Technology
Yale University Press
January 2026
ISBN 9780300282948
256 pages
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Kinship Medicine
Cultivating Interdependence to Heal the Earth and Ourselves
Wendy Johnson
Science / Medicine / Technology
North Atlantic Books
July 2025
ISBN 9798889842736
304 pages
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