This chapter focuses on how this collection of work—the Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities—serves to set up a geography of operations for medical humanities inclusive of the tensions and contestations that inevitably go along with boundary setting. It aims to make visible the transactional nature of such boundary setting and invite readers to participate in the field’s development by considering the various ways in which research factors into the evolution of the field. Lingard and Goldszmidt focus on metaphors related to clinical supervision, describing how language can severely limit our understanding of a complex, nuanced task. Clearly there is room and utility in adopting research practices within medical humanities that can make sense of language practices in health care contexts. The research project of the medical humanities is by necessity as much about undoing what we know as it is about painting a landscape of contemporary socio-political and cultural practices.