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To Anyone in Medicine: This is Why Listening Matters
"It is usually our most difficult experiences that really stay with us and change us, but so can the good ones." After the tragic death of her newborn daughter, Sophia Zilber recalls how much the caring response she received from hospital staff—and their simple willingness to listen—mattered.
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Use of a Graphic Memoir to Enhance Clinicians’ Understanding of and Empathy for Patients with Parkinson Disease
A study by Kimberly R. Myers, PhD, and colleagues evaluates whether using "a disease-specific comic with clinicians might increase awareness of, and empathy for, the patient’s experience of illness." Participants read My Degeneration: A Journey through Parkinson’s, a book-length graphic memoir by Peter Dunlap-Shohl, and were assessed on their confidence in understanding patients’ experiences with Parkinson's disease (PD), knowledge about PD, and empathy toward patients and families.
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The Impact of Non-Medical Reading on Clinician Burnout
In a national survey of palliative care providers, Daniel Marchalik et al. explore whether reading non-medical literature on a consistent basis may be associated with a decreased likelihood of burnout.
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A History of Epilepsy
Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities highlights Epilepsy Awareness Month with three fascinating articles:
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
at NYU Langone Health
BLR Featured Story:
"Ask Him If He Knows Jesus"
"I watched as the first physician off our bus, his stethoscope around his neck, smiled his way into the crowd. A little girl reached out and touched his pants, as if there were communicable power in the blue scrubs..." Orthodox and unorthodox medical treatments often rub against each other in ways that offer literary inspiration. "Ask Him If He Knows Jesus" is Clarence Smith's tale of an open-minded but still skeptical medical student on a church-sponsored medical mission in Venezuela.
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New Annotation:
Russell Teagarden on How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
“From his research, interviews, and personal experiences, Pollan is enthusiastic about the potential benefits psychedelics offer individuals who are healthy or sick….”
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice Seeks Papers on Health Humanities
As part of the journal’s established interest in increasing epistemic diversity within the discipline of medicine, the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice has issued a Call For Papers that stems from the successful Creating Space IX conference held in April 2019. At this conference, dozens of impressive papers and workshops that embraced the use of humanities methodologies within a larger context of biomedicine were shared. The editors invite conference attendees, past delegates to the Creating Space conferences, and any other interested persons to submit papers to a special section of the journal that will publish scholarly papers that concern the deployment of the health humanities. Deadline 12/15/19. More information.
Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities
The Department of Religion and the Medical Humanities Program at Montclair State University, NJ seeks an Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities to teach and conduct research at the intersections of religion/culture and medicine/healthcare, such as contemporary health-care practices in global medical systems; religion/culture and conceptions of care; religion/belief and healthcare ethics; beliefs/culture and genetic medical practice; human subjects protection; racial and ethnic health disparities; or religious/cultural literacy for healthcare professionals. More information on qualifications and application
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- Writing Health from the 18th Century to the 21st (Conference Call for Papers), deadline 11/15/19
- Space & Medical Humanities, deadline 11/30/19
- 4th Annual Kalanithi Award, deadline 12/1/19
- Locating Medical Television. The Televisual Spaces of Medicine and Health in the 20th Century, abstract deadline 12/1/19
- Writing in the health professions: Perspectives, problems, and practices, deadline 12/1/19
- Call for Applications for Content Editor of the Medical Humanities Blog, deadline 12/2/19
- International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention: Medical Humanities submissions, deadline 12/15/19
- 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
- Bellevue Literary Review theme issue: "Reading the Body," deadline 1/1/20
- Clio in the Clinic: A Special Issue of Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences on Teaching Medical History in Clinical Settings, deadline 1/1/20
- Hektoen International Seeks Submissions on "Blood", deadline 1/15/20
- Space, Place and Design in the Medical and Health Humanities (CFP for Summer Institute 2020, CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Network, University of Southern Denmark, June 25-27, 2020), abstract deadline 1/20/20
- Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Dementia Today, rolling deadline through 2/28/20
- Legacies of the Holocaust in Health Care (special issue of AMA Journal of Ethics), deadline 2/28/20
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Events & Conferences
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Doctors Without Boundaries
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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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Neuroscience and the Study of Intergenerational Trauma: How Does the Remote Past Get Under Our Skin?
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Women Scientists: Person Place Thing Podcast Recording Series
Randy Cohen in conversation with Maria del Mar Cortes, MD
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Narrative Medicine Rounds: "Writing a Biography: The Promise and Peril of Telling Someone Else’s Life"
A talk by Maura Spiegel
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Beyond Oneself: The Ethics and Psychology of Awe
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Film Screening: "DNA: The Secret of Photo 51"
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The Nocturnists: A Night of Storytelling
The Nocturnists brings their live show to New York City for a special event on the theme of LEARNING. The lineup includes storytellers who work in the fields of emergency obstetrics, neurology, ICU medicine, and primary care, among others.
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British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics and the Medical and Health Humanities
Registration is now open
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