Raymond Barfield is Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy at Duke University. He is a pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician, and he directs the Medical Humanities program in the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine at Duke. He is the author of The Ancient Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy (2011), Life in the Blind Spot (2012), Wager: Beauty, Suffering, and Being in the World (2017), and a novel called The Book of Colors (2015).