light made solid

I just came across an abstract for interesting paper available at the National Library of Medicine, via the National Institute of Health. The paper is called The art of stained glass: metaphor for the art of nursing and explores the metaphorical connections between the two disciplines. An excerpt from the summary will give you more info:

Stained glass artistry and caring in nursing require technical expertise, yet technical skill and knowledge are not the substance of either art. Both transcend space and time, and the art of stained glass and the art of nursing are influenced by the artist's/nurse's personal, social and cultural history. Just as the artisan transforms the glass and lead and is transformed in the creative moment, so does the caring transaction transform both patient and nurse.

Sounds like an interesting approach to melding together these disciplines.