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Learning How to Listen in Clinical Encounters
What does it really mean to listen to someone? Dr Susan Notess describes the challenges of listening well and how clinicians can begin to think of listening from a design perspective: “How do we design a conversation in which the speaker not only has the opportunity to get their story out onto the floor, but also in which we can in fact hear what they are saying?”
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Exploring perception and usage of narrative medicine by physician specialty: a qualitative analysis
Daniel A. Fox and Joshua M. Hauser analyze the perception and usage of narrative medicine across different medical specialties and whether there may be unique recommendations for implementation based upon specialty.
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Healthcare Workers
of Yore
"A history of healthcare conceived from the vantage of care, rather than that of authoritative practitioners," writes Sara Ritchey, "reveals a pattern that has been replicated over the centuries: the care that is most daily, most sustaining to all other acts, is also often the most undervalued, the most invisible and the most feminized." Ritchey explores the often unseen history of women in medieval medicine.
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What Is Found There: On Self and Soul in Medicine
"Unlike professional wellness culture, humanistic study can be a balm to the soul and giver of durable self-knowledge. But what would this self-knowledge look like in actual clinical practice? What would the hazards be?" Dr. Raj Telhan writes about the role of the humanities in medicine, and their impact on fashioning a self separate from one's professional identity.
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Highlights from Projects and People in
Humanities and Ethics at NYU Langone Health
New Annotation:
Russell Teagarden on This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
“Pollan continues pursuing his interest in the human drive for altering consciousness through mind-altering substances and marries this interest with his passion for plants and gardening.”
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From the Archive:
"The Vaccine Project"
Philip Cawkwell, MD, formerly a Rudin Fellow in Medical Ethics and Humanities, is interviewed by Katie Grogan, DMH, associate director of the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine, about his interest in vaccine refusal (pre-Covid) and how it became the focus of his fellowship project.
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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
Electrotherapy: Static Condenser Discharge Therapy
In this 1895 photograph, a large static charge machine is used to treat a neuropsychiatric patient. While electrotherapy’s primary usage was in neurological and psychiatric conditions, almost every disease state, from cancer to allergy, was treated with various electrical charges. The use of these large static machines required that the patient be placed on a protective electrically resistant stand. A variety of currents were employed in treating patients; among the electrical modalities were: (1) Direct and galvanic current; (2) Induced current from magneto-electric machines, induction coils or alternating-current dynamos; (3) Current from high-tension, high-frequency apparatus; (4) Static charge or current from an influence-machine; and (5) Magnetic fields or alternating-magnetic stress. The 1871 text, A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Aspects of Electricity by physicians George Beard (1839-1883) and Alphonse Rockwell, went through ten editions and became the bible of electrotherapy.
Fascination with electricity reached its peak in the last decades of the nineteenth century. It seemed that the use of electricity for conquering and treating diseases was a natural and miraculous therapy. Many machines were devised for electric treatment by various methods including static charge, spray, sparks, ‘Franklinic-induced’ current, electric shock and ozone administration. These machines varied from simple battery boxes with powerful low-voltage current to machines of increasingly large proportions. By the 1890s, some of these machines and their electric batteries had reached huge proportion, many over 6 feet in length. These devices provided practitioners in diverse fields the ability to treat all forms of physical and mental disease. Almost every practitioner also had a small cigar box sized device for local nerve and muscle stimulation for home visit treatment.
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
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- 2022 Health Humanities Consortium Virtual Conference: Spaces of/for Health Humanities, proposal deadline 10/31/21
- Special Issue of Rhetoric Of Health And Medicine, “In Living Color: Amplifying Racial Justice Work In RHM,” proposal deadline 11/1/21
- 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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The Lilianna Sauter Lecture: Managing The Modern “Infodemic”: How The New Social Media Are Complicating Old Public Health Problems
Speaker: Nancy Tomes, PhD
Hosted by the New York Academy of Medicine
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Poetry as an Ethical Act: Poetry of Witness in Health Care
Presented as part of The Examined Life Conference
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Pandemic times, apocalyptic temporalities and re-setting the future: using public pedagogy to explore historical and anticipatory grief
An online seminar, hosted by the
Southampton Centre for Medical and Health Humanities
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Gold Writing Workshops with Judith Hannan
Author Judith Hannan will be holding a Fall edition of the Gold Writing Workshop, with four sessions on Fridays: Oct. 29, Nov. 5, 12, 19, from noon to 2 p.m. ET. Writing workshop participants must agree to attend all four sessions. This workshop is particularly focused on supporting healthcare professionals and students. Nurses, doctors, and all healthcare team members of any discipline are welcome.
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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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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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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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