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A Novel Way to Relate to Patients
NYU Langone Health's Patient Experience Book Club, led by Katherine Hochman, MD, is profiled in O, The Oprah Magazine: "Every discussion includes typical book-group preoccupations—plot points and twists, characters loved or loathed—but returns, ultimately, to the book's lessons about how best to care for people"
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In Battle Against Doctor Burnout, Reading—For Fun—is Fundamental
As the American Medical Association studies and addresses issues surrounding physician burnout, this article by Sara Berg takes a look at the positive impact reading literature can have on doctors.
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Chemistry, Disability, and Frankenstein
Literature and Medicine's latest theme issue features a collection of original essays that "emphasizes two aspects of [Frankenstein] that have not yet generated mountains of scholarly attention: the first, a close examination of the scientific culture that surrounded Shelley...[and the second] from the field of disability studies, which offers useful lenses to better understand the Creature and his relationship to Frankenstein as well as how this relationship portrays differences in ability and appearance."
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Resident Self-Portraiture: A Reflective Tool to Explore the Journey of Becoming a Doctor
"Just as an artist contemplates the start of a new work on a blank canvas, intern resident physicians contemplate the start of their medical practice on July 1st each year..." Authors Christy L. Tharenos and colleagues describe an arts-based project in which residents created self-portraits with accompanying narratives throughout their three-year training.
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
BLR Featured Essay: "Mustard Seed"
"'The patient is my god in the operating room,' my neurosurgeon said shortly after the towers fell on September 11..." Jessica Penner's essay, selected by judge Susan Orlean to receive honorable mention in BLR's nonfiction prize, chronicles the trials of faith in a young woman with a rare bone disease.
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New Annotation on the LitMed Database: Jacalyn Duffin on Finding Our Way Home: A Family’s Story of Life, Love, and Loss by Damon Dagnone
"An autobiographical-autopathological account of a father’s horrifying experience of seeing a beloved child diagnosed with cancer, suffering greatly through treatment, and succumbing to its brutal side effects. Powerfully written with stark honesty and love…"
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Creativity in Medicine: A Doctors Who Create Conference, April 20th
This is a daylong symposium to celebrate creativity in medicine, held at one of the epicenters of medical creativity and curiosity in Philadelphia—the Mütter Museum. Join creative medical colleagues as they discuss their work as artists, writers, activists, designers, entrepreneurs, musicians, podcasters, and more. Hear a live podcast taping, get inspired from workshops on everything from narrative medicine to medical improv, and attend or participate in a story slam. See details & register here (registration deadline February 13).
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- 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
- 36th Annual Nursing & Health Care History Conference (to be held September 19-21, Dallas, Texas), abstract deadline 2/15/19
- Tendon: A Medical Humanities Zine Seeks Cover Art, Logo, deadline 2/15/19
- The ART of Infertility: An Anthology of Patient Narrative and Art, deadline 2/15/19
- Request for Proposals: Scoping review of the use of arts and humanities in the education of physician and interprofessional learners across the developmental spectrum, deadline 2/28/19
- 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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'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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Reclaiming Patient Narrative through Graphic Medicine
A talk by cartoonist Rachel Lindsay, author of RX: A Graphic Memoir
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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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Narrative in the Arts
Hosted at Caveat, this evening event showcases select works from a panel of artists followed by a moderated discussion. Meet the artists and learn more about how they incorporate narrative and storytelling into their work.
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Narrative in the Natural Sciences and Humanities
Two-day symposium: Feb 28 - March 1 | Columbia University
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41st Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture:
“Suicide: Clinical and Personal Perspectives,” a Talk by Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD
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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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Creativity in Medicine: A Doctors Who Create Conference
At the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia
Registration closes February 13
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Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis
At the Museum of the City of New York.
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