Charting shared advances across the emerging fields of medical humanities and health humanities, Culture and Medicine, co-edited by Rishi Goyal, doctor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Arden Hegele, lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, engages with the question of how biomedical knowledge is constructed, negotiated, and circulated as a cultural practice. The volume is composed of a series of pathbreaking interdisciplinary essays, which bring sociocultural habits of mind and modes of thought to the study of medicine, health, and patients. These juxtapositions create new forms of knowledge, while emphasizing the vulnerability of human bodies, new approaches to biology, a sensitivity to language and rhetoric, and an attention to social justice. The essays dissect the ways that cultural practices define the limits of health and the body, and provide novel insights into how biomedical frameworks become settled forms for broader cultural understanding.