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Knowing, Seeing, and Telling in Medicine
"Today, we are witnessing a new permeability between the arts and the sciences," writes Dr. Rita Charon, who in this piece draws on excerpts of interviews conducted for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Narratives of Discovery project to highlight the connections among the modes of knowing, seeing, and telling in the medical sciences.
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Hippocrates Cafe: Reflections on the Pandemic
Hippocrates Cafe: Reflections on the Pandemic features performances by artists that explore the impact of Covid-19 through music, art, animation, photography, story, poetry and dance. The special is hosted by Dr. Jon Hallberg and Dr. Renée Crichlow.
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Reading Closely: Bodies and Environments
Anna Ovaska and Kaisa Kortekallio examine how different approaches to close reading can affect our understanding of how narratives of illness "form, inform, and even deform how we experience ourselves, the world, and others."
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A History of Gestation Outside the Body
It's been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorized that fetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Highlights from Projects and People in
Humanities and Ethics at NYU Langone Health
New Annotation:
Russell Teagarden on The Problem of Alzheimer's by Jason Karlawish
“The book might have been better titled, The Problems of Alzheimer’s, to better reflect the multiple dimensions Karlawish takes into account in his study of the disease.”
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Featured Post:
Rx Books: An Interview on Bibliotherapy
Katie Grogan, DMH, MA, associate director of the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, interviews Darlina Liu, MD, about her research on bibliotherapy, which developed during her time as a Rudin Fellow in Medical Ethics and Humanities, and how her children’s book, The Bailey Blues, came to be.
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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
Direct Blood Transfusion, 1913
The development of blood vessel anastomosis in 1902 by Nobel Prize-winning French surgeon Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) was an innovation that enabled organ transplantation. Carrel was able to perform some of the first kidney transplants (in dogs) in 1908 with his anastomosis technique which prevented blood clot formation. The vessel suturing and handling technique also resulted in the development of direct blood transfusion. In this procedure, an artery of a donor is exposed and dissected free, and the vein of the recipient is isolated. Both are prepared for the transfusion in which they are then directly connected. In 1907, Carrel published “The Surgery of Blood Vessels” in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin detailing his remarkable blood vessel anastomosis technique. American surgeons built on Carrel’s innovation as he went on to make other landmark discoveries.
Among those working on improving Carrel’s technique was innovative surgeon George Washington Crile (1864-1943), who later founded the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Crile is best known for his work on surgical shock and development of ‘physiological surgery.’ He published 24 books and more than 400 papers. In August 1906, Crile performed the first successful transfusion of blood from one human to another in the United States at Cleveland’s St. Alexis Hospital. In 1909, he published Hemorrhage and Transfusion, the leading American text on the subject. In 1913, using material from his landmark text and a new series of original photographs, he published “Transfusion of Blood” in Howard Kelly’s Stereo-Clinic. In a bold series of 24 close-up stereo photographs (nine pictured here), Crile details the procedure of direct blood transfusion from a donor artery to a recipient’s vein.
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
2022 Graphic Medicine Conference Call for Papers
The Graphic Medicine conference will be held on July 14-16, 2022 as a hybrid conference, with in-person (Chicago, IL) and virtual attendance options. The conference theme is (Re)Connecting — reconnecting as a community and forging new connections as we navigate a changing world. Submissions are invited of a wide variety of abstracts focusing on health, illness, caregiving, and disability as they intersect with comics in any form (e.g. graphic novels and memoir, comic strips, manga, mini comics, web comics, etc.) Deadline: January 31, 2022. More information.
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- 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
- 2022 Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare, deadline 1/24/22
- Advancing racial and ethnic equity in science, medicine, and health, The Lancet call for papers, deadline 1/31/22
- The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities: 'Demons, Deviance and Disease,' 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
- Special Issue of American Literature: Pain, deadline 9/5/22
- 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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James Pennebaker on "Tracking the Social and Psychological Footprints of COVID-19"
Part of the Health Humanities Research Seminar (HHRS) Series at the Humanities Institute, University of Texas at Austin
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Story Medicine: The Wizard of Oz
A workshop with Jennifer Ramsay
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Risk and Ambiguity in Ethical Decision-Making
A Colloquium with Dr. Lara Buchak.
Hosted by the NYU Center for Bioethics.
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How Words Can Heal: Celebrating the Intersection of Poetry and Medicine
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Respect and Shame in Healthcare and Bioethics Workshop
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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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The Healing Power of Art – How Creativity and Beauty Help Cure the Ill
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AAMC Virtual Seminar: "Legacy of Medicine During the Holocaust and its Contemporary Relevance"
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