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'A Small Cemetery':
Death and Dying in the Contemporary British Operating Theatre
"Is detachment the modus operandi of the modern surgeon and if so, is it tenable in moments of emotional intensity—like patient death?" This article, by Agnes Arnold-Forster, uses memoirs and oral history interviews to enter the operating theater and consider the contemporary history of surgeons’ embodied experiences of patient death.
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Strange Encounters with Dead Selves: Medical Memoir, Apostrophe, and (Re)animating Subjectivity
Author Melissa R. Pompili focuses on three memoirs written by physicians who are specifically reflecting on their time in medical school to propose that the authors of these memoirs write not only to the reading audience, but also to their present and past selves. One of the featured titles is A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student, by NYU's Dr. Perri Klass.
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Winners of the 2019 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation has announced the six winners of the 2019 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest, in which students were prompted to share stories inspired by this Maya Angelou quote: "I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself." The winning essays will be published in two esteemed journals, Academic Medicine and Journal of Professional Nursing, later this year.
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Hospital Art Helps People Heal, but the Artworks Need Care Too
Can artwork help bring the humanity back into the hospital? This article by Dylan Klempner looks at the "unique benefits and challenges of acquiring, displaying, and caring for art in healthcare facilities."
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
Poems from Both Sides of the Stethoscope
The BLR is committed to publishing writing that brings together a variety of perspectives, allowing for deeper understanding of others’ experiences. This group of poems highlights writing from "both sides of the stethoscope."
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New Annotation: Cortney Davis on The Ninety-Third Name of God by Anya Krugovoy Silver
"This poetry collection is the first in a series of four books by Anya Silver—each volume continues to track her life through cancer treatment, remission, recurrence, and the anticipation of death. … they are poems of hope and strength, poems that are truly gifts sent to us from the way stations of her difficult journey."
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
American Association for the History of Medicine Call for Papers
The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) invites abstracts for papers in any area of the history of health and healing for its 93rd annual meeting, to be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 7-10, 2020. The AAHM welcomes papers on the histories of medicine, disease, and health broadly defined, including the history of medical ideas, practices, or institutions and the history of healing, illness, disease, or public health. Abstract deadline: 9/30/19. More information.
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- International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention Medical Humanities Section, deadline 8/15/19
- British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics, and the Medical and Health Humanities, proposal deadline 9/1/19
- The AIDS Crisis is Not Over, special issue of Radical History Review, abstract deadline 9/1/19
- Narrative Medicine: Fall Basic Workshop, earlybird registration deadline 9/6/19
- AMSA's Humanistic Elective in Activism, Reflective Transformation, and Integrative Medicine, deadline 9/15/19
- Graphic Medicine: A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, abstract deadline 9/15/19
- 2019 Conley Ethics Essay Contest, deadline 9/27/19
- 2020 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference, abstract deadline 9/27/19
- Special Issue of Humanities: "Photo-Literary Disorders: Literature, Photography and Illness," deadline 10/1/19
- Critically sick: New phenomenologies of illness, madness, and disability, paper proposal deadline 10/15/19
- 2019 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 10/25/19
- Studies in Comics – Special Issue on Comics and Education, deadline 11/1/19
- 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
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Events
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Medieval Herbs and Remedies: Foraging in the Shadow of the Cloisters
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inside/outside, a Two-Day Symposium on Digital Design
inside/outside is a two-day technical symposium that brings together two lenses for leveraging professional desktop 3D printing for professionals. Inside focuses on medical uses and how to communicate and prototype around the very small. Outside focuses on built environments, working with scales greater than 1:1, and uses that extend architectural models to communicate and develop ideas with the aid of desktop printers.
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Science Riot: A Night of Stand-Up Comedy
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Ethics and the Theater: The Lepers
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The Power of a Single Cell: The Deep History of Ourselves | Joseph Ledoux + Jeffrey Sachs
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dotMD 2019
dotMD is a two-day festival of ideas for doctors and healthcare practitioners looking for something more from medicine. It aims to reawaken a sense of wonder and curiosity about medicine that some may have lost along the way—and help them find deeper meaning and satisfaction in their working lives.
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The Examined Life Conference
The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host its 13th annual three-day conference focusing on the links between medicine and the arts.
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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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