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Sir William Osler: The Uses of History and the Singular Beneficence of Medicine
A century after his death, Sir William Osler is revered for his efforts to place clinical medicine on a rational foundation, his transformation of graduate medical education, and his attempt to keep medicine informed by humanism, even as it became ever more scientific.
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Lessons From Improv Comedy to Reduce Health Disparities
"Improv is theater and humanism. The outstanding clinician, like the proficient improv artist, draws on his or her rich life experiences to connect with and care for all patients." This article by Dr. Marshall H. Chin presents four lessons derived from improvisational and standup comedy that may help to improve clinical care and reduce health disparities among marginalized populations.
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Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic” May Be the Most Important American Painting
"The painting both reveals and conceals its subject matter, functioning as a brutal record and an homage to science." This article by Alina Cohen analyzes the importance of "The Gross Clinic" to both art and medicine.
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A Window into Dementia at the End of a Lifelong Partnership
A project by photographer Sofie Mathiassen documents the life of her grandparents as her grandfather progressed through the stages of Parkinson’s disease and dementia. The project was recently recognized by The Bob and Diane Fund photography grant, which supports visual storytelling about Alzheimer’s and dementia.
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
at NYU Langone Health
BLR Featured Essay: "The Origin of Fear
In this essay, author Inez Holger inventories all of the fears—herself, stigma, her genes, the cures, not trying the cures, relapse—that come along with her mental illness, and describes how she is able to live despite them: "I grope to explain to you what losing a sense of self feels like... Part of your personality gets amputated by your drug and no matter how much better you cope, you want your self back, even if it's morose and takes a ridiculous amount of effort to get along with. Could I have my self and feel better, please?"
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New Annotation: Russell Teagarden on State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
"A broader perspective of this book shows how a novelist can probe science and generate questions about it, warn of possible negative implications, and generate reasonable doubt and skepticism."
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Graphic Medicine In/During Troubled Times: Health, Social Justice and Human Rights
(July 16-19, 2020, Toronto)
The 2020 Graphic Medicine conference aims to encourage critical dialogues and interventions in/during troubled times with a specific emphasis on social justice and human rights. This year’s theme seeks connections between health, equity, and justice in an era of rapid ecological and societal upheaval. Submissions that address the relationship between health and such upheavals, as revealed through comics in its many forms (e.g. graphic novels, memoir, comic strips, manga, mini comics, web comics), are invited. Deadline January 31, 2020. More information
3rd Annual Midwest Medical Humanities Conference
Through envisioning medicine via the lens of literature, history, and philosophy, the medical humanities aims to bridge gaps that currently exists between the medical community and the patient population. The Medical Humanities discipline encourages us to engage in uncomfortable conversations and situations that uncover truths about how medicine is practiced and received. The 3rd Annual Midwest Medical Humanities Conference will focus on discussing these issues through research, art, poetry, music, and other interactive activities. Abstract deadline January 19, 2020. More information
NYU Digital Humanities Seed Grant
The NYU Research Technology Faculty Advisory Board (FAB) invites applications for an inaugural series of Digital Humanities Seed Grants. These grants are intended to fund the initial development of new research projects that will analyze digital sources, apply algorithmic methods to humanities data, or create digital publications, exhibits, or websites. The program will fund the initial steps of projects that may go on to receive greater funding from other sources or otherwise build NYU’s institutional capacity in Digital Humanities work. Grants may range in size between $2,000 and $20,000. Collaborative projects are encouraged, but must include at least one NYU faculty member in the humanities. Graduate students may apply with a letter of commitment from a faculty sponsor. Deadline January 29, 2020. More information
Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical/Health Humanities at Rice University
Application deadline: January 10, 2020. More information
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- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice Seeks Papers on Health Humanities, deadline 12/15/19
- International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention: Medical Humanities submissions, deadline 12/15/19
- Open Call for Artists: Comics and HIV/AIDS, deadline 12/20/19
- 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
- 11th Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night, abstract deadline 1/2/20
- 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference, proposal deadline 1/10/20
- 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
- 2020 Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare, nomination deadline 1/22/20
- 2020 Pearl Hurwitz Humanism in Medicine Award Nomination, deadline 1/31/20
- The Examined Life Conference Call for Proposals, deadline 1/31/20
- 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
- The 2020 Project Narrative Summer Institute: Narrative, Medicine and Disability, application deadline 4/1/20
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Events & Conferences
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Publish or Perish: Scientists Review Christmas Movies
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Classic Charcoal Drawing: Anatomy
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PERSON PLACE THING:
Randy Cohen in conversation with Budd Heyman, MD
At NYU Langone Health
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"The Soul of Care—The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor"
A talk by Arthur Kleinman. Part of the Narrative Medicine Rounds series at Columbia University.
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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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11th Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night
At the New York Academy of Medicine
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Narrative Medicine & The Creative Impulse
Hosted by the Division of Narrative Medicine at Columbia. Early Bird Registration of $50 off tuition through March 20. Standard Registration open through April 6th, space permitting.
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