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A newsletter from the Division of Medical Humanities
at NYU Langone Health
November 9, 2018

Celebrating 25 Years of NYU Langone Health's Literature, Arts and Medicine Database

The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed)—a dynamic, comprehensive resource for scholars, educators, students, patients, and others interested in medical humanities—celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. In this post, David Oshinsky, Marc Triola, Lucy Bruell, and Felice Aull, the founder and Editor in Chief Emerita, take us through the early years of the site and its evolution.

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What is the Role of the Arts in Medical Education and Patient Care?

Susan E. Pories, Sorbarikor Piawah, and colleagues conducted a survey-based qualitative study assessing arts and humanities engagement and attitudes towards incorporating arts and humanities-based teaching methods into medical education and patient care.

Stories Matter: Why You Should Embed Patient Stories at the Heart of What You Do

"As authentic human experiences, stories echo our humanness." Marie Ennis-O'Connor highlights research and presentations that focus on how powerful storytelling—and listening—can be as tools to foster connection and empathy in healthcare.

"Doctor Jazz": Lessons that medical professionals can learn from jazz musicians

"What do the sterile white walls, the beeps of monitoring devices and the hastily passing whitecoats of the hospital have in common with a jazz club at night, filled with smoke and the smell of booze, with the murmuring audience in awe of the seemingly uncontrolled chaos on stage?" Authors Allard E. van Ark and Marjo Wijnen-Meijer study the lessons that can music can give to medicine.

Winners of the Hektoen International Food and the Body Essay Competition

Hektoen International has announced the winners of their Food and the Body essay competition:

Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects

BLR Poetry Featured on Narrative Medicine Mondays

Mary Pan, a family medicine physician and writer, features several BLR poems—and accompanying writing prompts—on her blog's Narrative Medicine Monday feature, including "May Cause" by Elspeth Jensen, "Anatomy Lesson" by Nellie Hill, "The Game of Catch" by Noah Stetzer, and "You Will Feel a Pinch" by Marylen Grigas.

New Annotation: Shawn Thomas on Three Identical Strangers by Tim Wardle

"The documentary Three Identical Strangers tells the unbelievable story of Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland, and David Kellman – three identical triplets who were separated at birth and serendipitously reunited at the age of 19."

Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities

2019 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Awards in the Hippocrates Prize are for an unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines on a medical theme by entrants from anywhere in the world. There are 3 categories in the Hippocrates Prize, all international.

  • The Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine
  • The Hippocrates Health Professional Prize for Poetry and Medicine
  • The Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine

More information.

Watch Unrest and Receive Continuing Medical Education Credit
US healthcare providers – including doctors, nurses, and social workers – can now watch Unrest and receive continuing education credits through the American Medical Women’s Association and Indiana University School of Medicine, and in partnership with #MEAction. More information.

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Events

NOV
12

To Err is Human

Advance screening of the documentary To Err is Human followed by a panel discussion including the director.
NOV
13

# 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, plus Akhil Sharma, Judith Hannan, Sands Hall, and Rana Awdish, MD
NOV
13

The Science of Music

A talk by Dr. Pascal Wallisch
NOV
23

How 200 Years of Death in Greenwich Village Changed America

NOV
28

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks: On Social Justice, Race and Health

NOV
28

Disease and Disparity: Realities of the Uneven Playing Field of Public Health

DEC
6

The House of God at 40: Healing Then and Now

Please join us at NYU Langone Health to celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the most influential medical novels of the modern era, The House of God by Samuel Shem, MD.
DEC
10

Something The Lord Made

A screening of the award-winning film Something The Lord Made, followed by a presentation by Harriet Washington & Robert Ruben, MD. At the New York Academy of Medicine.
MAR
28

The Environments of the Health Humanities: Inquiry and Practice

Health Humanities Consortium Annual Conference
March 28-30, 2019 | Chicago
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APR
28

Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis

At the Museum of the City of New York.

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