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Poetry Provides Solace in the ICU
Colleen M. Farrell, MD, an internal medical resident at NYU Langone Health and the founder and host of the Medical Humanities Chat (#medhumchat) on Twitter, writes about how reading poetry in the ICU provides a different way to acknowledge grief and death.
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Reading Between the Lines
This article by Klay Lamprell and Jeffrey Braithwaite investigates a narrative competence framework for reading stories of illness and patienthood published on the Internet.
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Leonardo Da Vinci Showed How Art Can Advance Scientific Progress
Using Da Vinci's remarkable work as a starting point, this article by Ben Shneiderman highlights the "value of bridging disciplines to inspire discovery and innovation," and features links to interesting examples of how art and science complement each other.
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Annals Story Slam
Story Slams are events that celebrate storytelling by providing an opportunity for participants to verbally share brief stories with an audience.
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
BLR Featured Essay: "I'm Not Talking to Anybody" by Perri Klass
"One of the basic tropes of doctor-writing is the physician forced all unwilling into being a patient. I have rung this bell myself, over and over..." In an essay from BLR's theme issue on family, Perri Klass, MD, professor of pediatrics and journalism at NYU, explores the role reversals that doctors experience when they become a patient, or (worse!) the hovering family member of a patient.
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New Annotation on the LitMed Database: Russell Teagarden on I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
“O’Farrell’s stories about her close calls with death convey the fears, frights, and forebodings that came with them [and] collectively reveal the possibility of the human spirit to get us through the most serious and persistent challenges to our being.”
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
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- 2019 Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium, proposal deadline 4/19/19
- 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
- Ninth Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference, abstract deadline 5/15/19
- Special Issue of Humanities: "Photo-Literary Disorders: Literature, Photography and Illness," deadline 10/1/19
- Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Dementia Today, rolling deadline through 2/28/20
- 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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Graphic Medicine: Making Comics About Health
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Art and Medical Diagnoses
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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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Leonardo da Vinci, Musician and Scientist
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Goldwater Hospital Writing Workshop Reading
Part of the NYU Creative Writing Program public Reading Series
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Doctors Orchestral Society of New York Spring Concert
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The UnLonely Film Festival Launch Celebration
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WE vs C: Stories of Triumph Over Breast Cancer
Performed by the Roxey Ballet in Lambertville, NJ
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The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour, Part Three
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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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2019 Gold Humanism Summit
The first Gold Humanism Summit is a special gathering of supporters of humanism in healthcare, including GHHS members, faculty members supporting humanism in their medical or nursing school, Mapping the Landscape (MTL) researchers, healthcare CEOs who wants to infuse compassion into their organization's culture—anyone passionate about humanistic care. The Gold Humanism Summit will be run in conjunction with the Planetree International Conference on Person-Centered Care, allowing Gold attendees to also join Planetree sessions.
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