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Every Older Patient Has a Story. Medical Students Need to Hear It.
At more than 20 medical schools in the United States, students are getting an earful — about life, about perspective — from healthy seniors.
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Webinars for Health Care Professionals
Safe Space Radio has created an online library of ten webinars for use in the education of health care professionals about the particular needs of several underserved populations. The goal is to foster empathy and understanding, while motivating the desire to learn more about specific health challenges that members of marginalized communities face.
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Novel approach to medical care? Docs trained in storytelling
"There is no denying that cutting-edge equipment and pharmaceutical breakthroughs can help save lives — but so can a doctor trained in storytelling..." A profile of Dr. Rita Charon, who will deliver the National Endowment for the Humanities' 2018 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on October 15th, highlights how she merges the fields of literature and medicine.
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Using graphic illustrations to uncover how a community of practice can influence the delivery of compassionate healthcare
Authors Trisha Parsons and colleagues describe how incorporating graphic facilitation—visual representations summarizing group dialogue and interactions during a one-day retreat—helped the participating healthcare professionals develop a community of practice and work towards shared goals in compassionate care.
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
5 Short Poems From the BLR That Pack a Punch
Short poems pack a lot of meaning into just a few lines. Here are 5 small poems from the BLR archive that stir big emotions:
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New Annotation: Russell Teagarden on Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway examine the successful efforts of a few scientists to jam the spokes in the wheel of science, delaying needed mitigations (e.g., regulations) to protect individuals, vulnerable populations, nations, and the earth."
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
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- Building Healthcare Collectives: call for project fellows, application deadline 11/15/18
- Third Annual Kalanithi Award, deadline 12/1/18
- 2100: A Health Odyssey: A Science Fiction Short Story Writing Competition, deadline 12/1/18
- The British Society for Literature and Science Fourteenth Annual Conference, abstract deadline 12/7/18
- Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Special Issue: "Interrogating the Past and Shaping the Future of Mental Health Rhetoric Research," proposal deadline 12/10/18
- Wellcome Photography Prize 2019, deadline 12/17/18
- Perspectives on the Philosophy of Medicine, deadline 12/31/18
- (Dis)ability and Comics: Fifth Annual Dartmouth College Conference on Illustration, Comics, and Animation, abstract submission 1/7/19
- Healthcare in Children's Literature, proposal deadline 1/30/19
- Anti-biosis? – Social and Cultural Inquiries into Human-Microbe Relations, rolling deadline throughout 2018
- Challenging Medical Knowledge Translation, rolling deadline through October 2019
- Submit your original artwork to Journal of Patient Experience, no deadline
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Events
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Embracing Grief: An Evening of Personal Narratives
6:30-8:30pm | Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria, 2113 Amsterdam Ave, NYC
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The Imagine Science
Film Festival
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"To See the Suffering: The Humanities Have What Medicine Needs"
Dr. Rita Charon, 2018 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
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America's Doctor: Reflections on Being the Surgeon General
Hear how four leading voices for health—Drs. Novello, Elders, Satcher and Carmona—navigated the intricacies of various interests and agendas in their efforts as U.S. Surgeons General to always put people first.
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Environmental Art: Re-Imagining Art, Science, and the Humanities
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The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: Dawn Raffel and Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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Colored Printed Illustrations in Medical Publications 1500-1850
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Reflecting Art in Nursing Practice
Reflecting Art in Nursing Practice is a four-part workshop series for nurses at NYU Langone Health. Museum educator Carolyn Halpin-Healy from The Metropolitan Museum of Art will lead small group workshops in which nurses will view and discuss images of museum works. Through these reflective discussions participants will have a chance to practice skills and have conversations that directly enrich their clinical nursing practice. Please register for all 4 sessions through the Library's Classes & Events page.
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American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference
"The Future Is Now: Bioethics and Humanities Reimagine an Uncertain World" | Anaheim, California
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The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour
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"Life Writing," a performance of work from the journal The Intima
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Reimagine End of Life
Reimagine End of Life is a week exploring big questions about life and death. The five boroughs of New York City are joining together to create over 250 events exploring death and celebrating life...from all perspectives. Through November 3rd.
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Bellevue Literary Review "Off the Page"
Actors from stage and screen present readings from the latest issue of the Bellevue Literary Review, on the theme of displacement.
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The Nocturnists: NYC
The Nocturnists bring their live storytelling show to New York City in partnership with Reimagine for a special event on the theme of death and dying.
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History of Science Society: Telling the Stories of Science
Annual Meeting | Seattle, WA
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Narrative Medicine Rounds with Ronald Epstein, MD: "Attending: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice"
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# YeahYouWrite & The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Present Diagnosis: Literature
The doctor, patient, and caregiver experience in fiction and non-fiction, with NYU Langone's Danielle Ofri, MD, Akhil Sharma, Judith Hannan, Sands Hall, and Rana Awdish, MD
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks:
On Social Justice, Race and Health
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The Environments of the Health Humanities: Inquiry and Practice
Health Humanities Consortium Annual Conference
March 28-30, 2019 | Chicago
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Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis
At the Museum of the City of New York.
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