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Medicine & Society: Quotidian Quandaries
New England Journal of Medicine's latest Medicine and Society collection captures doctors' struggles with both their patients' needs and their own consciences as they practice medicine in an imperfect world.
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Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live
"We are all storytellers; we make sense out of the world by telling stories. And science is a great source of stories." Robert A. Burton, MD, a neurologist and novelist, explores where science and story meet.
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‘Fine Art Is Good Medicine’: How Hospitals Around the World Are Experimenting With the Healing Power of Art
Hospitals are increasingly turning to artwork to enhance the patient experience and promote healing. This article by Menachem Wecker looks at the history and studies of the movement, and also tours hospitals around the world to see how they are integrating art into their environments.
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Rash Reading:
Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill
Using On Being Ill as its guide, this essay by Sarah Pett "asks scholars and teachers in literary studies to acknowledge the persistent limiting of illness in literature, and to take seriously, for perhaps the first time, Woolf's commitment to imagining what a more capacious understanding of illness in literature might look like."
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
BLR Featured Story: "Song of Memory" by Ellen Collins
This story, from BLR's theme issue "Reconstructions: The Art of Memory," is an elegy to faltering memories: "We have forgotten how to tie our shoes, how to button our sweaters, how to hold a fork. We have lost the ability to add a column of numbers, to trace a route on a map, to color inside of the lines, to sip through a straw..."
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New in the Lit Med Magazine: Writing “The Presentation on Egypt,” an Interview with Author Camille Bordas
Sebastian Galbo interviews novelist, short story writer, and translator Camille Bordas, author of “The Presentation on Egypt,” a short story published in The New Yorker and annotated in the LitMed Database. Bordas’ story explores the interrelationships among grief, family discord, and truth-telling.
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Quick Links
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Seeking Nominations of Residents & Fellows at NYU School of Medicine
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Call for Writers: Synapsis: A Journal of Health Humanities
The editors of Synapsis: A Journal of Health Humanities are looking for 8-10 PhD students and junior scholars whose work intersects with the medical humanities to become regular writers for the publication. The commitment is one piece of writing every two months. These pieces can intersect with your research, or be one-off creative explorations. Contributions need not be long (500 to 1,000 words is ideal). Please see the journal site for the kind of work their writers produce.
To apply, please write to the assistant editor, Liz Bowen, with a short statement of interest and a CV. The deadline to apply for a writing position is August 31, end of day.
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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
- American Association for the History of Medicine, abstract deadline 9/30/19
- 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
- International Conference on Storytelling and Well-being Across Media Borders, abstract deadline 10/31/19
- Studies in Comics – Special Issue on Comics and Education, deadline 11/1/19
- Signs of Life Anthology, deadline 12/31/19
- 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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Graphic Medicine: The Therapeutic Benefits of Art Journaling
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Midday at the Oasis: Inclusive Graphic Medicine: Communication, Collections and Community
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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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Exploring Ethical Dilemmas In: Being an Ethicist with Randy Cohen
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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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Advocacy in Medicine 2019
At the New York Academy of Medicine
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Author's Night: OUT IN TIME - The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation
With author Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH
At the New York Academy of Medicine
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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.
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Introduction to Preapproval Access to Investigational Medical Products
Free webinar sponsored by CUPA (The NYU School of Medicine Working Group on Compassionate Use and Preapproval Access), a project of the NYU School of Medicine Division of Medical Ethics. To reserve your spot for this free WebEx event, please email Kelly Folkers.
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