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The House of God at 40: Healing Then and Now
On Thursday, December 6th, the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health, in collaboration with the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine, and Education, Faculty, and Academic Affairs, hosted a symposium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the most influential medical novels of the modern era, The House of God by Samuel Shem, MD.
Photo above, from left: Richard Anderson, MD ('Eat My Dust Eddie'); Janet Surrey, PhD ('Berry'); Jonathan I. Ritvo, MD ('The Runt'); Samuel Shem, MD ('Roy Basch'); Walter Eades, MD ('Chuck'); and David Heber, MD, PhD ('Hyper Hooper'). |
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Bellevue and Polio Make NFID Reading List
Two books by David Oshinsky, PhD, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone, appear on the list of holiday reading recommendations from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) Board of Directors: Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital and Polio: An American Story, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History.
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The Book That Changed How I Talk to My Patients About Obesity
Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and population health at NYU Langone, writes about his desire to speak more sensitively and empathetically to his patients about weight, and how the book Fat Nation can help us understand the real causes of the obesity epidemic.
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Influences on Students' Empathy in Medical Education
What factors promote the development of empathy among medical students? This recent study by N.J. Pohontsch and colleagues aimed to identify these positive factors, as well as those that hinder the development and expression of empathy.
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These Are Not Sad Stories: How Graphic Medicine Humanizes the World of Health Care
In recent years, the medium of "graphic medicine" has grown into something of a phenomenon. This article looks at "why the illness-comics combination — of levity and pain, traditionally — works so well."
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
BLR Featured Story: "Ask Him If He Knows Jesus"
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 on the LitMed Database: Steven Field on Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
"Mustering a combination of data and insights from the domains of history, archaeology, genetics, biology, paleobiology, economics, and sociology, among others, Harari weaves an organized narrative that attempts to answer the questions of who we are and how we got here."
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Call for Applications: MA in the Social Foundations of Health,
Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health, and Society
The MA in MHS emphasizes critical perspectives on health and illness, health disparities, and health justice—each approached through interdisciplinary research. Students in the MA program collaborate with faculty on humanities and social science research through the Graduate School as well as clinical research in Vanderbilt’s Medical Center. The MHS graduate program offers a one-year accelerated program of study, with the option of completing a thesis or practicum. Students in the program often complete the MA before going on to jobs in research, public health, non-profits, and healthcare consulting or as part of a “gap year” before medical school or other health-related advanced degree programs. Applications for fall 2019 matriculation are due February 1, 2019. Application requirements include: Vanderbilt’s Graduate School’s Online Application form; three academic letters of recommendation; statement of purpose; writing sample; transcript(s); official GRE score (applicants may request to submit MCAT scores in lieu of GRE scores by emailing MHS@vanderbilt.edu). Prospective students can find additional information about the program here and are welcome to follow up with MHS@vanderbilt.edu.
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- Perspectives on the Philosophy of Medicine, deadline 12/31/18
- (Dis)ability and Comics: Fifth Annual Dartmouth College Conference on Illustration, Comics, and Animation, abstract deadline 1/7/19
- Sites of Health: A Symposium on the Medical Humanities, abstract deadline 1/7/19
- Creating Space IX: Cultural Humility and Contemporary Medical Practice: (How) Can the Humanities Help?, proposal deadline 1/15/19
- Healthcare in Children's Literature, proposal deadline 1/30/19
- Que(e)rying Graphic Medicine: Paradigms, Power, and Practices (Graphic Medicine Brighton, UK Conference 2019), proposal deadline 1/31/19
- 2019 Hippocrates Open and Health Professional Awards, deadline 2/14/19
- Call for Book Proposals For New Humanities List (Emerald Publishing), no deadline
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Events
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Doctors Orchestral Society of New York
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Remembering the Dead
Who is remembered, commemorated, and forgotten? Activist and artist Avram Finkelstein and essayist Garnette Cadogan consider the complicated social and institutional responses to infectious disease with the Tenement Museum’s David Favaloro.
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Second Tuesday Lecture Series
Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano, editors, with selected contributors, from Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness
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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Medicine, and the Great War
At the NYU Center for the Humanities
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Burnout in Healthcare: The Need for Narrative
This workshop provides an intensive introductory experience to the methods and skills of Narrative Medicine, with a special focus on the ways narrative medicine techniques can approach the issues of burnout and moral injury in healthcare, and in the workplace in general. Earlybird registration rates available through February 8th.
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Headcase: LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness
At The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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The Hospital Zone at Ellis Island: A Walking Tour
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The Environments of the Health Humanities: Inquiry and Practice
Health Humanities Consortium Annual Conference
March 28-30, 2019 | Chicago
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Reproductive Ethics: Challenges and Solutions
At NYU Langone Health
This one-day conference will explore the emergent ethical/legal issues related to: egg donation; embryo donation; sperm donation; the use of direct to consumer testing for adoptees to identify biological parent; third party reproduction; and mitochondrial DNA replacement and uterine transplants. The activity will also include a film shown during the lunch break, Thank You for Coming, which tells the story of two women finding their sperm donor fathers through the use of DNA analysis. The director, and star of the documentary, and other conference presenters will be present for panel discussion after the film.
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The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour
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Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis
At the Museum of the City of New York.
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