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Virtue and Care Ethics & Humanism in Medical Education: A Scoping Review
This scoping review by David J. Doukas and colleagues explores how virtue and care ethics are incorporated into health professions education and how these factors may relate to the development of humanistic patient care.
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Making Healthcare More Humane: The Story Behind The Nocturnists Podcast
This profile of The Nocturnists, an independent storytelling community for healthcare workers, explores the project's origins and evolution, including its recent collection, Stories from a Pandemic, which is now in the US Library of Congress as a historical document.
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How Galileo’s Groundbreaking Works Got Banned
Dr. Howard Markel's regular column for PBS NewsHour reflects on important people and events in history. Here, he writes about Galileo Galilei and how he "spurred his own scientific revolution."
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Top Screen Portrayals of Mental Health Issues in 2021
The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Arts and Humanities highlights some exemplary representations of mental health issues in film and television, from The Father to Ted Lasso.
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Highlights from Projects and People in
Humanities and Ethics at NYU Langone Health
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Tony Miksanek on The End of Days by Bernard MacLaverty
“The tale is a stunning and sorrowful envisioned snapshot of what the end of life might have felt like for an artist-protagonist during the 1918 influenza pandemic.”
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Richard M. Ratzan on Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
"The story of Farmer’s crusade for a more rational anti-tuberculosis regimen for resistant TB; his political struggles to wrestle with drug manufacturers to lower the price of these and medicines for HIV; his charismatic establishment of a larger and larger cadre, then foundation of co-workers...these are fascinating reading."
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The Burns Archive Photo of the Week
Army Surgeon Dr. S. Baird Wolf About to Amputate an Arm, Kentucky, 1864
In the pre-anesthetic era, surgeons were rated by how fast they could remove a limb. A master surgeon could perform an arm amputation in about a minute and leg amputation in under three minutes. This speed was deemed quick enough to avoid any respiratory problems and allow the anesthetized patient to sit upright. Maintenance of airway ventilation and respiratory control was, and still is, one of the most critical concerns during surgery. During the Civil War era, some surgeons decided that having the patient sit upright was a more natural position for some major operations. There are only approximately a dozen photographs taken during the Civil War that depict actual battlefield hospital surgery in progress. Two of these images show the patient being operated upon while sitting up. During the war, many physicians joined the military to learn how to operate as there was a seemingly endless supply of wounded. It is a safe assumption that Dr. Wolf was a master surgeon before the war as he was skilled enough to perform the procedure with the patient in this position and have the surgery visually documented.
This photograph is most likely a studio-posed view and taken to show the position and operative preparation. On the back of this photograph is documentation of the case with the photographer's printed logo, 'D.P. Barr, Army Photographer, Paducah, Ky.' This is an unusual wartime signature as most war photographers were in the field and did not have studios. It seems that Barr, based with an army group, had a studio on the post. Dr. Wolf took this opportunity to have a photograph taken for use as a teaching tool for surgeons inexperienced with the treatment of war wounds.
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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- Jacalyn Duffin Health & Humanities Conference: theme “Beyond the Body,” submission deadline 3/13/22
- 2022 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest, deadline 3/14/22
- Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity in History of Medicine/Medical Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, application deadline 3/18/21
- 2022 Gold Student Summer Fellowships, deadline 3/20/22
- 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
- Literature and Medicine Seeks Book Review Suggestions, no deadline
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Events & Conferences
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COVID Memorial Day Virtual Vigil
Hosted by Reimagine, in partnership with Marked By COVID
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An Introduction to Mindful Practice in Medicine: Flourishing in Clinical Care
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The Nurse Antigone
A groundbreaking project by and for nurses, The Nurse Antigone presents dramatic readings of Sophocles’ Antigone on Zoom—featuring professional actors and a chorus of frontline nurses—to help frame powerful, guided discussions about the unique challenges faced by nurses before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. By Theater of War Productions.
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Healing/Arts Workshop
Artist and philosopher Merel Visse will lead a workshop on artistry and care.
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Covid: Primary Sources
A reflection on creativity in the face of a global pandemic, from both artists and healthcare workers who experienced it firsthand. Presented by BLR and the Gold Foundation.
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Doctors Without Boundaries
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Health Humanities Consortium International Conference
Registration closes March 22 (earlybird rates through March 11)
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Narrative Medicine Spring Basic Workshop
A virtual workshop and online course hosted by the Columbia University Division of Narrative Medicine. Discounted tuition for those who sign up before March 25th. Registration will end on April 1st.
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A Crisis of Caring: The Humanities and Our Health
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to consider the ways that knowledge drawn from humanities disciplines and methodologies can inform and help address the ongoing crisis in healthcare.
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