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Slideshow: Art and Medicine
Art and medicine have always been closely linked. Artists have represented the body, whether sick or healthy, while both doctors and researchers have explored their passion for design, sculpture, or photography. The Medscape French Edition team and contributors offer examples of what art and medicine mean to them.
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The Yin and Yang of Medical Consultations
"Patients very rarely come to doctors talking of 'symptoms'... Instead, they use their own individual words, phrases and stories...then we sift these narratives through our medically trained minds and reformulate them." Dr. John Launer explores the Yin and Yang of doctor–patient communication.
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Conscience in Medicine
A special issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine explore concepts that underlie disputes about conscience in medicine.
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A Sage on the Ward
Good nurses are attuned to the lived experience of patients. Can the theory of phenomenology add more to their practice?
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
at NYU Langone Health
BLR Featured Story: "Winston Speaks"
"Winston Speaks," by the late Jill Caputo, is the vibrant story of Winston—severely disabled, mute—and how he navigates life from his wheelchair and with his aide upon whom he is dependent.
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New Annotation: Russell Teagarden on The Genius of Marian by Anna Fitch and Banker White
"Pamela Steele White was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease at the age of sixty-one. A year later, in 2009, as her disease progression was evident, her son Banker, a documentary filmmaker, turned his camera on, and he kept it on until the autumn of 2012."
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Tell Your Story: The Nocturnists Seeks Submissions for an NYC Event
For their next live show (December 12th at Housingworks Bookstore Cafe in New York), The Nocturnists are looking for stories related to the theme of Learning. This call for submissions is open to students, doctors, nurses, or any other healthcare worker. Deadline: October 6, 2019. More information.
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- American Association for the History of Medicine, abstract deadline 9/30/19
- Special Issue of Humanities: "Photo-Literary Disorders: Literature, Photography and Illness," deadline 10/1/19
- Academic Medicine Call for Letters to the Editor From Student and Resident Authors: Firsts, deadline 10/7/19
- Critically sick: New phenomenologies of illness, madness, and disability, paper proposal deadline 10/15/19
- Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Special issue on Food as Medicine, deadline 10/15/19
- 2019 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 10/25/19
- International Conference on Storytelling and Well-being Across Media Borders, abstract deadline 10/31/19
- Health and Disease in Popular Culture (Popular and American Culture Association Meeting), proposal deadline 11/1/19
- Studies in Comics – Special Issue on Comics and Education, deadline 11/1/19
- Space & Medical Humanities, deadline 11/30/19
- 4th Annual Kalanithi Award, deadline 12/1/19
- Signs of Life Anthology, deadline 12/31/19
- Society for the Social History of Medicine 50th Anniversary Conference, CFP on "Resilience," deadline 12/31/19
- Hektoen International Seeks Submissions on "Blood", deadline 1/15/20
- Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Dementia Today, rolling deadline through 2/28/20
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Events
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Measles and Memory: Perspectives from the Medical Humanities
How can insights from the medical humanities help us understand the stubborn persistence of measles as a childhood disease?
A panel presentation by NYU faculty, featuring Arthur Caplan (Professor of Bioethics), Perri Klass (Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics), David Oshinsky (Professor of History and Medicine), and Dara Regaignon (Associate Professor of English). The panel will be moderated by Trace Jordan (Clinical Professor in the College Core Curriculum).
At the NYU Center for the Humanities
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Narrative Medicine Rounds
“An Ethics of Care: Restorative Justice and Healing in Toni Morrison’s Late Fiction,” a talk by professor Farah Jasmine Griffin
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A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine
A talk by Robin Wolfe Scheffler
Associate Professor in the MIT Program on Science, Technology, and Society & 2012 American Philosophical Society Research Fellow
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Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire
"Professionalism, Intellectual Pursuit, Entertainment,
and Socio-Political Competition"
At the NYU Kimmel/Global Center
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Poetry & Science: Poetry, Deep Time & the Stars
With Mordecai-Mark Mac Low & Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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Novenas for a Lost Hospital
Novenas for a Lost Hospital is a communal experience to remember, honor, re-imagine and celebrate St Vincent's Hospital. Inspired by the caretakers and patients of St. Vincent's Hospital, and guided by Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, this unique event takes a 60-person audience on a journey from an enclosed garden to an intimate West Village theater to the NYC AIDS Memorial Park.
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The Lerner Lecture: "Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic"
Speaker: Matt McCarthy, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine; author of The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly, Odd Man Out, and Superbugs
At NYU Langone Health
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Sister Doctors: Elizabeth & Emily Blackwell
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Author's Night: OUT IN TIME - The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation
With author Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH
At the New York Academy of Medicine
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Reimagine End of Life Festival
Reimagine End of Life is a week exploring big questions about life and death. (SF Bay Area)
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The Examined Life Conference
The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host its 13th annual three-day conference focusing on the links between medicine and the arts.
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Bay Path Writers’ Day: The Healing Power of Narrative Medicine
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2019 Gold Humanism Summit
The first Gold Humanism Summit is a special gathering of supporters of humanism in healthcare, including GHHS members, faculty members supporting humanism in their medical or nursing school, Mapping the Landscape (MTL) researchers, healthcare CEOs who wants to infuse compassion into their organization's culture—anyone passionate about humanistic care.
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'Cripping' Graphic Medicine: Psychiatric Disability, 'Crip' Culture, and the Health Humanities
At Syracuse University
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Off The Page: A Reading from the Bellevue Literary Review
Actors from stage and screen bring work from the latest issue of BLR to life through dramatic readings. At NYU Langone Health
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Doctors Differ: Early Medical Caricature and the Birth of the Comics Form
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Hysteria or Misogyny? Women, Madness, and Mental Health
At USC's Doheny Memorial Library
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Drawing on Disability: Graphic Medicine
Speaker: M.K. Czerwiec, nurse, cartoonist, educator, and creator of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/Aids Care Unit 371
At the Greater Wilkes-Barre (PA) Chamber of Commerce
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Introduction to Preapproval Access to Investigational Medical Products
Free webinar sponsored by CUPA (The NYU School of Medicine Working Group on Compassionate Use and Preapproval Access), a project of the NYU School of Medicine Division of Medical Ethics. To reserve your spot for this free WebEx event, please email Kelly Folkers.
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