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When it’s needed most: a blueprint for resident creative writing workshops during inpatient rotations
Lauren Michelle Edwards and colleagues examine the outcomes of a narrative medicine workshop held during inpatient medicine rotations for medical residents, and share a generalizable narrative medicine framework for program implementation across institutions.
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Epidemics have happened before and they’ll happen again. What will we remember?
Over the years we have faced many epidemics, yet "outbreak after outbreak, our collective memory falters. The urgency of the predicament eventually fades," writes Aimee Cunningham. How will we remember the lessons and stories of the Covid-19 pandemic?
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Understanding moral empathy: A verbatim-theatre supported phenomenological exploration of the empathy imperative
A recently published study by Dilshan Pieris and colleagues asks how learners' experiences of medical training impact their moral empathy, and aims to offer a new perspective on previously reported empathic declines in medical trainees.
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Health Ecologies Lab Publications - Free Download
The Health Ecologies Lab has announced a new series of publications in the health humanities foregrounding ideas around healing and care. Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial justice awakening, the series offers a bold vision for listening as a transformative practice. For a limited time, you may download PDF copies of both books at no cost.
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Highlights from Projects and People in
Humanities and Ethics at NYU Langone Health
New Annotation:
Martin Kohn on Practice by Richard Berlin
“Evident in the poems is a person experiencing much more than medical/psychiatric practice, but a full cornucopia of life: his love of art, music, food, nature, and the people he shares this bounty with.”
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From the Archive: Black Babies and the Lived Experience of Black Women
Co-editor Sebastian Galbo interviews Linda Villarosa, a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and director of the journalism program at the City College of New York, about her research and writing on race issues and disparities in American healthcare.
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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
Silas Weir Mitchell, MD, America's Leading Neurologist
Photographs of physicians examining patients in clinical settings are the rarest of nineteenth and turn-of-the-century images. This photograph depicts Silas Weir Mitchell, MD (1829-1914) examining a Civil War veteran at the Infirmary for Nervous Diseases in Philadelphia, circa 1900. Mitchell’s medical career path was established by his friend and fellow founder of American neurology, William Alexander Hammond, MD (1828-1900), who was a farsighted medical innovator. He was the US Army Surgeon General during the early part of the Civil War and created the ambulance corps and other innovations, founding a special neurology hospital which resulted in the creation of American neurology as a specialty.
In May of 1863, Hammond designated a special hospital in Philadelphia at Cherry Lane to study and treat neurological injuries and disease, placing Mitchell in charge along with doctors William W. Keen and George Morehouse. Patients with epilepsy, chorea, and insanity as a result of head wounds were sent to the Cherry Lane Hospital and also included in their studies. In 1864, Mitchell, Morehouse and Keen penned Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves. In this book, they described nerve pain and a new clinical entity, causalgia. In a later paper, they describe the use of hypodermic injections of half a grain of morphine combined with atropine given three times a day for treatment of painful neural injuries. Mitchell, in 1872, published Injuries of the Nerves and their Consequences.
Recognized and acclaimed for his establishment of medical neurology, Mitchell also played a critical role in the advancement of American psychiatry. Mitchell created the most successful treatment for neurosis of the century ― the ‘rest cure.’ This not only made him world famous, but it was perhaps the only American nineteenth century psychiatric therapy adopted in every country in the Western world.
With thanks to The Burns Archive for providing historic medical photographs and commentary for this weekly feature
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
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- Special Issue of Rhetoric Of Health And Medicine, “In Living Color: Amplifying Racial Justice Work In RHM,” proposal deadline 11/1/21
- 2022 Health Humanities Consortium Virtual Conference: Spaces of/for Health Humanities, proposal deadline extended to 11/15/21
- On Becoming A Diagnostician: Students’ Creative Insights on the Art of Diagnosis, application deadline 11/15/21
- Line of sight: Highlights 2021 (The Lancet) photography competition, deadline 11/16/21
- 24th Annual Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) Conference, submission deadline 12/8/21
- INTERFACES: Representing Human and Environmental Vulnerability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, abstract deadline 12/20/21
- William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition, deadline 12/31/21
- Call for Abstracts: 13th Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night (to be head virtually 2/23/22), abstract deadline 12/31/21
- Humanising Epidemiology: Non-medical Investigations into Epi/Pandemic Phenomena, submissions will be accepted through December 2021
- Advancing racial and ethnic equity in science, medicine, and health, The Lancet call for papers, deadline 1/31/22
- The Journal of Creative Arts Therapies, deadline 2/22/22
- Pandemics, Public Health, and Statecraft in Twentieth-Century U.S. History, deadline 3/31/22
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Philosophy Thematic Issue (2022): special section on "Respect and Shame in Healthcare and Bioethics," deadline 4/22/22
- 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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William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture: Confronting the Public Health and Ethical Challenges of COVID-19
Featuring:
Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Christine Grady, Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Sponsored by the NYU School of Global Public Health and The Greenwall Foundation
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MedHumChat: Unpacking Emotions
Join the #MedHumChat community on Twitter for a discussion about Unpacking Emotions.
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Narrative Medicine Rounds: "The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) 1987-1993"
A talk with Sarah Schulman about her book and the history of ACT UP and American AIDS activism
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Doctors Without Boundaries
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C'RONA Pandemic Comics Panel
Artists and scientists who developed comic books that would help youth understand the COVID-19 pandemic talk about the project, a series called "C’RONA Pandemic Comix." Hosted by the McGoogan Health Sciences Library, University of Nebraska Medical Center
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Health & Humanities Research Seminar:
"The 2014 Ebola Epidemic and it's Consequences in the United States and West Africa"
Speaker: Kevin Thomas, Ph.D.
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Patient-Physician Communication: A MedHumChat Discussion
A live audience version of MedHumChat (short for Medical Humanities Chat), presented as part of The Examined Life Conference
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An Introduction to Mindful Practice® in Medicine: Flourishing in Clinical Care
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Compassion Fatigue: Facing Stress & Grief in Healthcare
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Rembrandt’s Empathy
Speaker: Salvatore Mangione, MD
The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Stony Brook University
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Healing Arts Houston: Innovations in Arts and Health
The three-day conference is open to the public and will be a dynamic space for dialogue, learning, and inspiration. Practicing artists, health care professionals, medical educators, and scholars are welcome to attend. Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit is available for physicians.
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