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What's the Story? A Guide for the Clinician Writer
Suzanne Koven, MD, a primary care physician and Writer-in-Residence at Massachusetts General Hospital, shares a four-step plan for "turning a clinical interaction into a personal narrative, a case into a story."
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The Curious Subculture of Diagnosing Dead Artists by Their Work
Most physicians reserve their diagnoses for patients, but there is a subculture of medical professionals fascinated by the health problems of famous, dead artists—and how they affected their work.
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Comics as an Educational Tool on a Clinical Clerkship
Can comics help medical students better understand clinical concepts? Authors Aditya Joshi and colleagues investigated student satisfaction with the use of comics as an educational tool in clinical medical education.
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Building the Field: Arts And Public Health
This article spotlights the "Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America" initiative, which aims to "accelerate innovation at the intersections of the arts, creative placemaking, community development, and public health through cross-sector collaboration, discovery, translation, and dissemination."
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How Americans Learned To Condemn Drunk Driving
Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and population health at NYU Langone, describes how "in the early 1980s, a series of political and cultural factors coalesced to make drunk driving perhaps the foremost public health issue in the country."
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"The Duty of Their Elders" – Doctors, Coaches, and the Framing of Youth Football’s Health Risks, 1950s-1960s
Kathleen Bachynski, PhD, Rudin Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone, explores the history of doctors, coaches, and the framing of youth football's health risks in the 1950s-1960s.
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
BLR Featured Author: Laura Johnsrude
Author Laura Johnsrude—who received honorable mention in BLR's 2018 Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction for her essay "Drawing Blood"—recently published a new essay about the diagnosis and initial treatment of her breast cancer, "Look at My Chest."
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On the LitMed Database: "When Death Comes" by Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who believed poetry "mustn't be fancy," died on Thursday. Read an annotation of her poem "When Death Comes" on the NYU Langone LitMed Database, plus explore more of her writings on grief and loss in the New York Times and hear Oliver read her poem "Wild Geese."
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Request for Proposals: Scoping review of the use of arts and humanities in the education of physician and interprofessional learners across the developmental spectrum
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has sought to articulate various critical foundations for the education of future physicians. With funding from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the AAMC is now working to produce a third monograph, Arts and Humanities Foundations for Future Physicians. As part of this effort, the AAMC is seeking a team to conduct a scoping review with the following research question: How and why are the arts and humanities being used to educate physician and interprofessional learners across the developmental spectrum? Proposal deadline 2/28/19. More information
Register for The New York Academy of Medicine's #ColorOurCollections
The New York Academy of Medicine's #ColorOurCollections is a week-long coloring fest on social media organized by libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world. Using materials from their collections, these institutions are sharing free coloring content with the hashtag #ColorOurCollections and inviting their followers to color and get creative with their collections. The next #ColorOurCollections will occur February 4-8, 2019. More information & register.
8th International Health Humanities Meeting
The Environments of the Health Humanities: Inquiry and Practice
DePaul University Conference Center, Chicago; March 28-30, 2019
More information & register.
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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
- 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
- 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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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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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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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
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Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis
At the Museum of the City of New York.
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