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The Online “Personal Responses Tour”: Adapting an Art Museum–Based Activity for a Virtual Setting
In this Educational Case Report, Margot Kelly-Hedrick and colleagues describe their experiences using an art museum-based method—the Personal Responses Tour (PRT)—with medical students to address specific curricular needs (e.g., exploring personal, relational, and professional identities; community-building; support of self-care), as well as the creation of an online version of the PRT during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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National Library of Medicine Historical Collections: Health At Home
In their latest virtual tour, the National Library of Medicine features materials that document how people have taken responsibility for managing their own physical and mental health, as well as recommendations of medical professionals and public health officials on addressing threats to health. As they note: "Taken together, across all the periods and places they represent, these collections reveal stories about personal responsibility and the intersection of individual and public health."
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How DNA’s Spirals Help Us Understand the Shape of Life
From 19th-century croquet-ball representations of molecules to the double helix structure ubiquitous today, images have always been central to our understanding of science. Charlotte Sleigh explores the reciprocal roles of imagery and scientific innovation in visualising new discoveries.
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Preventing a Pandemic's Toll—We've Been Here Before
In this narrative medicine essay, an infectious diseases physician recalls the reluctance of some patients with AIDS who feared taking antiretroviral medications, offering the same arguments being raised for refusing COVID vaccinations, and suggests that storytelling may be a compelling way to convince people to be vaccinated.
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Highlights from Projects and People in
Humanities and Ethics at NYU Langone Health
New Annotation:
Russell Teagarden on Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
“Readers will appreciate the book for the questions it raises and the thinking it inspires...[about] taking measures to avoid devastating enfeeblement and infirmity during old age.”
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New Annotation:
Cortney Davis on Freud on My Couch by Richard Berlin
“Berlin writes as a physician, husband, father, friend, lover of music – and as a man who understands that he and his patients share a common and fragile humanity.”
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Support the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database and Magazine
As someone who is interested in Medical Humanities, we hope you will join us in support of the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database and Magazine. One of the core components of NYU Langone’s Division of Medical Humanities, LitMed is an open access collection of more than 3,000 annotations of works of literature, art, and performing arts that provide insight into the human condition. Please make a gift today. Learn more.
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The Burns Archive Photo of the Week
Alexander Fleming Examining Petri Dish, circa 1944
One of the most crucial discoveries of twentieth century medicine was the creation of the first wonder drug: the antibiotic penicillin. Penicillin saved millions of lives and changed the course of human history. It also revolutionized medicine and opened up new fields of research, altering centuries-old bacterial scourges, syphilis, gonorrhea, and other primary and secondary bacterial infections.
This photograph shows Sir Alexander Fleming in his laboratory in the mid-1940s. Fleming worked at the Inoculation Department at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. In 1928, while doing research on the influenza virus, Fleming discovered that a mold had accidentally developed on a culture plate of staphylococcus and had inhibited the growth of the bacteria. He named the mold ‘penicillin’ and in 1929 reported his findings in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. But Fleming misinterpreted and misunderstood the phenomena he observed, and physicians’ reaction to the phenomena was unenthusiastic. In 1939 and 1940, at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology of Oxford University, Ernst Boris Chain and Howard W. Florey developed penicillin into a usable drug. Penicillin is bactericidal, killing bacteria by destroying and preventing construction of the outer cell wall of susceptible microorganisms, and does not affect cell wall construction in higher animals and thus is not toxic.
Chain and Florey figured out how to produce the drug on a large commercial scale. As World War II waged on, the drug was recognized as a powerful secret tool for the Allies, and was subject to secrecy acts. American pharmacies were better able to manufacture the drug, and tons of penicillin were produced and shipped to Europe. After the war, the race was on to develop new antibiotics. Now, antibiotic resistance has become a major problem, especially in hospital acquired infections, and many people expect that new antibiotic wonder drugs will solve this growing problem.
With thanks to The Burns Archive for providing historic medical photographs and commentary for this weekly feature
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Health Humanities Consortium Steering Committee - open positions
This fall there will be three openings on the Health Humanities Consortium Steering Committee. These will be selected via a vote of the HHC Membership. Only members will be able to serve and/or vote. Membership (which runs from July 1 – June 30) is open for renewal and the link to join is on the HHC website.
To nominate or self nominate, please send your name and one paragraph describing your interest and potential contribution (intended to be shared with the membership) to HealthHumConsortium.Membership@gmail.com by Tuesday, August 31st. They are particularly seeking a candidate who would like to train for and eventually assume the role of Treasurer. Voting will occur during the month of September and the three-year term will begin on October 1st. Current steering committee members ending their first term are eligible to run again for a second term.
The role of the steering committee is to review and amend the By-laws as appropriate (also available on the website), advise and consult with working groups (a steering committee member serves on each of the working groups), advise and consult on the direction of the HHC, communications, collaborations and governance, and help to plan the annual conference. Officer positions within the HHC (Chair or Co-Chairs, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Chair) are selected from and by the elected Steering Committee members. Members of the Steering Committee are expected to participate in bi-monthly conference calls and attend the annual meeting of the HHC (which will be virtual for 2022).
Please feel free to reach out with any questions to current HHC Co-Chairs, Erin Lamb (erin.lamb@case.edu) and Sarah Berry (sarah.berry@oswego.edu).
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- Arts-Based Research in Health Care (AMA Journal of Ethics), deadline 8/29/21
- Global Bioethics: "Redefining Global Bioethics in Today’s World," submissions will be accepted until 9/1/21
- Shame in Medicine: An Audio Documentary Storytelling Series, sign up by 9/1/21
- Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Dementia, rolling deadline, submissions welcomed up to September 2021
- Advocacy in Medicine 2021 Conference, abstract deadline 9/6/21
- Medicine, Myth, and Memory: Trusted Voices in the Pandemic, deadline 9/10/21
- 2021 Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition, deadline 9/15/21
- The Disability Gaze: Material and Visual Approaches, abstract deadline 9/15/21
- National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program, application deadline 9/22/21
- 2021 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 9/24/21
- 2021 Conley Ethics Essay Contest, deadline 9/24/21
- The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, application deadline 9/30/21
- Assistant Professor (tenure track): Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, University of British Columbia, application deadline 10/1/21
- Assistant/Associate Professor, Philosophy Department - Biomedical Ethics/Medical Humanities, Rice University, application deadline 10/30/21
- Humanising Epidemiology: Non-medical Investigations into Epi/Pandemic Phenomena, submissions will be accepted through December 2021
- Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Medical Humanities, rolling deadline
- Emerald Studies In The Humanities, Ageing And Later Life, submit a proposal / no deadline noted
- Historical Perspectives in Art Section of The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation, no deadline
- Literature and Medicine Seeks Book Review Suggestions, no deadline
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Events & Conferences
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SICK!!! A Chronically 'Ill'arious Venture into illnesses, injuries, and healthcare
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The Bridge: Narrative Medicine & Healthcare
A 9-week Narrative Medicine course that provides training in attentive listening, empathy, and self-care through literature, philosophy, and the arts. Next course begins September 2021.
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Narrative Medicine Rounds with Reginald Dwayne Betts
“An Hour with Reginald Dwayne Betts: Prison, Law, Poetry”
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The Healing Classics: Medical Humanities and the Graeco-Roman Tradition
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Facing Grief in the HealthCare Workplace- Compassion Fatigue
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Activating Art for Health Professionals
Speaker/performer: Ray Williams
Part of "Let's Jam, The Arts in Medicine series" from the Center for Compassionate Communication at UC-San Diego
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The Art of Death With Tessa Fontaine
This five-part seminar explores notions of death and dying around the world, drawing from biology, history, and beyond. Each 1.5 hour session takes place on consecutive Mondays beginning September 13.
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Online Information Session: M.S. and CPA in Narrative Medicine (Columbia University)
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Engaging Across Disciplines: Toward a Practice of Transdisciplinarity
Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium 2021
September 17-18, 2021, with additional dates through October 9, 2021
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Humanity in Music
Humanity in Music is a nationwide fundraising music festival, in support of the Alzheimer Society.
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The Mudroom: Guided Creative Workshops for Health Professionals
The Mudroom is a creative and reflective writing workshop for health professionals. Meetings are held monthly and provide a space to write, read, try out exercises in prose and verse, share work and give feedback. The Fall 2021 sessions occur on one Wednesday each month, beginning on September 22.
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Inequalities Unmasked: What Pandemics Reveal About Race And U.S. Society, From Yellow Fever To COVID-19
The Iago Galdston Lecture, part of The New York Academy of Medicine Library’s History of Medicine series
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Leonardo da Vinci: A Union of Art and Science
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ASBH’s 23rd Annual Conference
Program Theme: Bioethics and Humanities at the Crossroads Virtual Meeting
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The Examined Life Conference
Enjoy discussions and presentations on how the arts can be used in medical education and patient and provider care.
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The Need for Narrative: Grappling and Reckoning with These Times
This new narrative medicine basic workshop invites you to join the narrative medicine international community in bringing our creative resources to the task of locating ourselves in these unprecedented times and exploring the power of narrative work to bring our experiences into focus. Earlybird pricing through October 1st.
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