Physician-novelist Daniel Mason's latest book celebrates human endurance
For Daniel Mason, there's a clear connection between psychiatry and literature. As a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, Mason has spent much of his career researching the subjective experience of mental illness and the influence of literature and culture on modern medical practices. And as an acclaimed novelist, the Palo Alto native has spent nearly two decades writing fiction and nonfiction inspired by his research. Mason said his dual career took off unexpectedly when he was a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. Between college and...
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