Andrew Schuman

Andrew Schuman is a General Practitioner Partner in Oxford and a Clinical Tutor at the University of Oxford's Lady Margaret Hall. He uniquely bridges medical practice with literary scholarship, teaching literature to GP Registrar groups for a decade while practicing as a GP.

His academic pursuits focus on the intersection of medicine and literature, particularly through bibliotherapy. Collaborating with Jonathan Bate, he co-authored a seminal article on the history of bibliotherapy in the Lancet (2016). He was shortlisted for the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine in 2010.

Andrew serves as a lead consultant for ReLit: The Bibliotherapy Foundation and co-edited the poetry anthology Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind (2016). His publications reflect interdisciplinary research trends merging clinical insights with literary analysis, emphasizing mental health and therapeutic applications of poetry.

• 2010 International Hippocrates Prize shortlisting
• 2016 Lancet publication on bibliotherapy history
• Co-editor of 2016 poetry anthology