Raymond Barfield
@raymondbarfield
About
Raymond Barfield is a pediatric oncologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He also teaches philosophy in Duke's Divinity School. He has published a book of poetry called Life In the Blind Spot, as well as a book of philosophy from Cambridge University Presscalled The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy. His novel The Book of Colors was published in Spring 2015. Ray directs the Pediatric Quality of Life and Palliative Care Program for Duke Children’s Hospital, and was the founding director of the Duke Divinity School initiative in Theology, Medicine, and Culture. In his free time he likes to play guitar, run, and skydive.
