Humanitas is the literary journal for the Medical University of South Carolina. First produced in 1997, this literary journal shows how the university hospital system is a natural place to look for literature and art – as the arduous and heart-rending situations, frequent to the medical world, trigger creative expression. Medical staff are frequently placed in situations where they feel like Band-Aids applied over large gaping wounds, especially in times when their patients’ sufferings are in ways that they cannot help. Still there are many moments of joy. The selections in this edition reveal a connection between joys and sorrows of life, and in the end offer hope – that in spite of blindness, we begin to see; in spite of pain, we can feel.
