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Disrupted Breath, Songlines of Breathlessness
Life of Breath is an interdisciplinary project working to find new ways of answering questions about breathing and breathlessness and their relationship to illness and well-being. In this article, team members from across disciplines—including artists, respiratory clinicians, historians, anthropologists, cultural theorists, and philosophers—present their analyses of an excerpt from a single cognitive interview transcript with a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Metastatic Metaphors: Poetry, Cancer Imagery, and the Imagined Self
"How do metaphors shape and reflect patients' experience of cancer? How can repeated immersion in challenging poetry affect our understanding of cancer and other diseases?" This article by Lois Leveen, PhD, explores these questions through close readings of poetry by seven-time cancer patient Judy Rowe Michaels.
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Life is short and Art is long: reflections on the first Hippocratic aphorism
Anthony Papagiannis, MD, revisits Hippocrates' first aphorism—“Life is short and Art is long; opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult”—to reflect on its meaning and significance.
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Contemporary Artists’ Books and the Intimate Aesthetics of Illness
This essay by Stella Bolaki brings together critical perspectives from the discrete traditions of artists’ books and the medical humanities to examine books by three contemporary artists that treat experiences of illness and wellbeing.
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
at NYU Langone Health
BLR Theme Issue: Landscapes of the Mind
This BLR theme issue—"Landscapes of the Mind"—focuses on the broad continuum of the mind and its maladies. Explore the issue, from "By My Own Hand," a personal essay about the life-and-death questions that serious depression can precipitate, to "The Room of Small Gods," a fictionalized account of Sigmund Freud's last days, from a rather unusual point of view.
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New Annotation: Richard Ratzan on The Bridge in the Jungle by B. Traven
"The Bridge in the Jungle is a novel about the tragic death of Carlos, an 8 or 9 year old (no age is given) hyperactive Mexican boy, and the aftermath of his mother's overwhelming grief for him, sometime in the early 20th century in a very poor village deep in the jungle."
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Visiting Scholars in Health Humanities, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
The Center for Health Humanities at MCPHS University invites applications from scholars interested in spending one to five weeks in residence at its Boston campus. They seek researchers working in health humanities (broadly understood) who could benefit from time in a highly interdisciplinary environment. They plan to select at least two Visiting Scholars for the Spring 2020 semester and more for the following academic year. Applications to visit during the Spring 2020 semester are open through February 1st, 2020. For Fall semester residencies, applications will be accepted from April 15th to June 15th 2020. More information.
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- Open Call for Artists: Comics and HIV/AIDS, deadline 1/6/20
- 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference, proposal deadline 1/10/20
- Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical/Health Humanities at Rice University, application deadline 1/10/20
- Health Humanities as a Teaching and Learning Strategy, abstract deadline 1/13/20
- Hektoen International Seeks Submissions on "Blood", deadline 1/15/20
- 3rd Annual Midwest Medical Humanities Conference, abstract deadline 1/19/20
- 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
- Graphic Medicine In/During Troubled Times: Health, Social Justice and Human Rights, 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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The Story Collider
True, personal stories about science
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PERSON PLACE THING: Randy Cohen in conversation with Budd Heyman, MD
A live taping of the podcast PERSON PLACE THING featuring Budd Heyman, MD, medical director of Prison Health Services at Bellevue Hospital Center.
PERSON PLACE THING WITH RANDY COHEN is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result? Surprising stories from great talkers.
At NYU Langone Health
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Screening and Talk of Far From the Tree with Andrew Solomon
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One Day University: The Future of Health
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"The Soul of Care—The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor"
A talk by Arthur Kleinman, MD. Part of the Narrative Medicine Rounds series at Columbia University.
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The Enigma of Life: Confronting Marvels at the Edges of Science
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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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