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The Orphan Child: Humanities in Modern Medical Education
"The medical humanities remains the curricular orphan. Can it find a home in medical education? Can it answer medicine's cry for health and renewal?" Author Mary E. Kollmer Horton explores these questions, reviewing how studying the humanities can help physicians better understand their patients, as well as create benefits in their own lives, including increased resiliency and work-life balance.
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CLOSLER: Sharing Stories, Inspiring Reflection
CLOSLER—which derives its name from a melding of the words "closer to Osler," a tribute to Dr. William Osler—supports "a learning community focused on sharing thoughtful clinical stories and perspectives to stimulate reflection about providing exceptional care to every patient." The site has recent articles on how art can foster dialogue about the human experience of illness, how to measure a year in medicine, and more.
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"Beside Oneself with Rage"
Author Jorie Hofstra analyzes "the use of the metaphor of the doubled self in a personal narrative of brain injury, and...situate[s] this metaphor in its cultural history by analyzing Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Incredible Hulk as landmark moments in its development."
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Defining Empathy to Better Teach, Measure, and Understand Its Impact
"Empathy is the elusive, holy grail of medicine, not because it is unattainable but because we have failed to define it in attainable terms..." Author Anne M. Dohrenwend, PhD, describes four aspects of empathy that are rarely noted in the medical literature but that are fundamental to understanding its practice.
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
BLR Featured Story:
"What Lies Beneath"
BLR's theme issue "A Mosaic of Voices" focuses on how culture intersects with health, illness, and healing. In this story by Mary Akers, the protagonist is transitioning from female to male while on a scientific expedition in Egypt: "Eight days before you leave for the Sinai Desert, Dr. Simon cuts a flap into the skin of your lower back and inserts twelve subcutaneous pellets of synthetic testosterone. The area swells, red and hot to the touch. That should hold you, he says. For the next three months..."
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Humanities at the Bedside: A Conversation with Dr. Elisha Waldman and Dr. Steven Field
Elisha Waldman, MD, author of This Narrow Space, a memoir of his time working as a palliative care physician in Israel, talks to NYU Langone Health's Steven Field, MD. In the book Dr. Waldman writes about his time working as a pediatric oncologist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, treating Israeli and Palestinian children.
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
The ART of Infertility: An Anthology of Patient Narrative and Art
The ART of Infertility, an international art, portraiture and oral history project, launched by Michigan-based photographer Elizabeth Walker in 2014, seeks creative writing (personal essay, memoir, poetry), visual art (photography, drawing, painting, and images of three-dimensional work), and hybrid forms about the experience of infertility, created by and for individuals who identify as infertile. To submit, please send a complete creative submission and 1-2 page cover letter describing your creative submission and how it is reflective of your infertility journey. Deadline: February 15, 2019. More information.
Second Annual Midwest Medical Humanities Conference at IUPUI
The Midwest Medical Humanities Conference is an opportunity for students pursuing research or study in medical humanities to discuss and present their own scholarly research. The second annual conference will be held at IUPUI in Indianapolis on March 23rd, 2019. Proposals are due by January 18th at 5 p.m. Abstracts can be presented in multiple formats including as a poster, art display, panel, flash presentation (5-7 minutes), or paper presentations (20 minutes). Students are encouraged to submit term papers or final projects. More information.
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- 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
- (Post)colonial Health: Global Perspectives on the Medical Humanities, proposal deadline 2/15/19
- Tendon: A Medical Humanities Zine Seeks Cover Art, Logo, deadline 2/15/19
- ASBH Annual Conference: "Remembrance and Resilience: How Bioethics and Humanities Can Move Us Forward," proposal deadline 3/4/19
- Seventh Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition, deadline 4/15/19
- Call for Book Proposals For New Humanities List (Emerald Publishing), no deadline
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Events
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Leslie Jamison: The Recovering
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New York Academy of Medicine's Rare Book Room: Plague and Pestilence
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Doctors Orchestral Society of New York
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'The Horrors of My Secret Toil': What Frankenstein Demands of Curators
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Tenth Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night
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The Power of Stories That Shape Us
Elaine Pagels + Dani Shapiro, Moderated by Elizabeth Lesser
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PERSON PLACE THING: David Oshinsky in conversation with Randy Cohen
Join us at NYU Langone Health for a live taping of the podcast PERSON PLACE THING, hosted by Randy Cohen. Randy will be in conversation with David Oshinsky, PhD, professor of history at NYU and director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health.
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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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Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery
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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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