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When Epidemics Wreaked Havoc in America
Deadly infectious diseases were once common in the US, until science conquered them. In today’s crisis, it’s worth recalling those celebrated victories. David Oshinsky, PhD, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health, writes about what we’ve learned from past epidemics, from smallpox to cholera to polio.
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Coronavirus Vaccine Dreams
“For most of us alive now, it’s a new experience to be longing for a vaccine…” Perri Klass, MD, professor of pediatrics and journalism at NYU, writes about the relief that a potential coronavirus vaccine would bring, in the context of our remarkable advances in science and public health.
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Poetry for Healthcare Providers? A Pediatrician's Prescription
Irène Mathieu, MD, a poet and pediatrician, makes a case for poetry, and recommends ten books that are "essential for everyone (but especially for health care professionals)."
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Medical Humanities
The new issue of Medical Humanities features articles ranging from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to prosthesis to science fiction to a study of handwriting and illness.
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
at NYU Langone Health
BLR Featured Issue: Plagues & Pens
BLR's first theme issue featured a special section on Infectious Diseases, taking readers from the Saranac Tuberculosis Sanitorium, to a funeral home in Haiti, to the leprosy hospital in Carville, Louisiana.
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New Annotation: Sebastian Galbo on Death is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End by Carine Mardorossian and Christopher Kerr
"The mystery of end-of-life dreams—their visions of loved ones; of seeking forgiveness, healing, and understanding within weeks, sometimes days, of one’s death; of comforting apparitions and visitations—points to a miraculous capacity within the human heart that eases the life-to-death transition."
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
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- The 9th International Health Humanities Conference (Tokyo, October 23-26, 2020). Conference Theme: “All in One Boat: Putting the Health Humanities to Work for Individual and Public Health,” Proposal deadline: March 31, 2020
- The 2020 Project Narrative Summer Institute: Narrative, Medicine and Disability, application deadline 4/1/20
- Racial and Ethnic Health Equity in the US (special issue of AMA Journal of Ethics), deadline 4/1/20
- 2021 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise, deadline 6/10/20
- NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, deadline 9/25/20
- Medical Humanities-BMJ Seeks Blog Content on This Year’s Theme: Access, rolling deadline
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Events & Conferences
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ReelAbilities Film Festival, New York
March 31 - April 6
ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York has decided to go on with the show by shifting its program to a virtual format.
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Classic Charcoal Drawing: Anatomy
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Madness and Medicine on Roosevelt Island
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Health Humanities 2020: Narrative and Counternarrative
The 23rd Hiram Summer Seminar will explore the narratives and counternarratives of the health humanities as we enter the next decade of the twenty-first century.
Application deadline: April 1, 2020
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Narrative Medicine & The Creative Impulse
** RESCHEDULED from April 17-19 **
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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