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Hektoen International
Hektoen International's latest issue features articles on Clara Maass and yellow fever, "surgical theatrics" on the surgeon's stage, lessons on person-centered care from Margaret Edson’s W;t, "reading the brain" in John Keats' Ode to Psyche, and more.
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The Nocturnists Podcast Launches Season 2
On The Nocturnists podcast, doctors share stories of joy, sorrow, and self-discovery. Based on the live storytelling event of the same name, and hosted by physician Emily Silverman, this podcast is animated by a deep-seated curiosity about health, illness, and human connection.
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Defining Compassion in the Digital Health Age
This article by Dr. David Wiljer and colleagues outlines the protocol for a forthcoming scoping review of how compassion and compassionate care are understood within the evolving field of digital health technologies.
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Imagination and Healing
Rafael Campo, MD, JAMA’s new poetry editor, discusses the healing power of the arts: "An appreciation of the arts and humanities can give us that larger human context. Rather than seeing our patient as a list of problems, we can reimagine our patient as a specific story in the context of a particular life."
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
BLR Featured Writing: "Poem for a Friend Growing Lighter and Lighter" by Abe Louise Young
"Oh yes, my friend, I do commit to you entirely, / to the best of my ability, / within the limits of our mutual fragility..." Abe Louise Young's long poem—chosen by judge Kazim Ali as the winner of the BLR's 2017 Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry—narrates the relationship between an able-bodied speaker and a friend diagnosed with a brain tumor.
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New Annotation on the LitMed Database: Jacalyn Duffin on The House on Lippincott by Bonnie Burstow
"Like the protagonist, Burstow is a daughter of survivors….One of her agendas in this novel is to reveal the effect of trauma on subsequent generations. Another agenda is feminist, in its recounting of the past and in the on-going travails of the present…"
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Proposals Invited for 2019 Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium
Attendees are invited to share how they came to connect with health humanities and each other – in settings within clinical walls and communities at large – highlighting the unique ability of the humanities to respond to divergent, yet often interconnected patient, provider, administrative, and public needs. Presentations highlighting successful existing programming, ongoing research, and approaches to curriculum are encouraged. Deadline 4/19/19. More information.
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- Seventh Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition, deadline 4/15/19
- Gender and Trauma: Material, Methods, Media (2019 Great Lakes History Conference), proposal deadline 4/30/19
- Conatus . Journal of Philosophy: special issue on Holocaust Studies and Bioethics, abstract deadline 4/30/19
- Special Issue of Humanities: "Photo-Literary Disorders: Literature, Photography and Illness," deadline 10/1/19
- Sharing Our Stories: Narratives, Poetry, and 55 Word Stories, Families, Systems, & Health, no deadline
- Call for Reviewers for The Polyphony, no deadline
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Events
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ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York
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The 2019 Fordham Distinguished Lecture on Disability:
Notes on Cure, Disability and Natural
Worlds
Speaker: Eli Clare
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New England Graphic Medicine ComicCon
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Science Diction: The Secret Scientific Stories of Words with Science Friday
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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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Jazz and the Neuroscience of Decision Making: A Celebration of Mind and Soul
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Patricia Marx & Roz Chast: Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?
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Graphic Medicine: Making Comics About Health
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The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour, Part Two
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Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis
At the Museum of the City of New York.
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Narrative Medicine Rounds:
“Metaphors, Diversity and Trust in Communicating Precision Medicine”
A talk by Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD
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Radical Listening: Narrative Medicine for a Polarized World
This intensive training brings together leaders in psychology, medicine, the humanities, social activism, and the creative arts to inspire and equip us to take radical action in the face of rising racism, sexism, classism, and nationalism. Presenters include Rita Charon, MD, PhD, a general internist and literary scholar who originated the field of narrative medicine, and Lipi Roy, MD, an internal physician board-certified in addiction medicine who is a clinical assistant professor at NYU Langone Health.
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2019 International Graphic Medicine Conference
"Que(e)rying Graphic Medicine: Paradigms, Power, and Practices," Hosted by Brighton and Sussex Medical School, at the Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton, UK
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