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On Becoming a Plague Doctor
As Mark Earnest, MD, PhD, writes, the plague doctor "stands in stark contrast to most other iconic images of medicine," such as the commanding surgeon in Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic” or the devoted physician holding vigil in Sir Luke Fildes’s “The Doctor.” What did it mean for him to become one?
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UnLonely Film Festival: Best of Fest
The UnLonely Film Festival, now in its fourth season, presents a curated collection of favorite films from their archives, all featuring "diverse stories from those experiencing—and in many cases, overcoming—the challenges of loneliness and isolation."
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Psyche: Exploring the Human Condition
Psyche is a new digital magazine from Aeon that seeks to illuminate the human condition through three prisms: mental health; the perennial question of ‘how to live’; and the artistic and transcendent facets of life.
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New Issue of Journal of Medical Humanities
The latest issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities includes articles on trauma and "literary caregiving," contemporary legends and narratives in healthcare, and the possibility of a “medical sublime.”
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Highlights from Projects in the Humanities and Ethics at NYU Langone Health
New Annotation:
Howard Carter on Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"At 23 years of age, Caitlin Doughty went to work for a crematory in Oakland, California, and looked human mortality right in the eye. She reports on her first six years in the funeral industry."
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Associations between medical students' beliefs about obesity and clinical counseling proficiency
Victoria Fang, a former Rudin Medical Ethics and Humanities Fellow at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and colleagues examine whether medical school students’ beliefs about obesity correlate with their ability to effectively counsel patients with obesity.
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Literature and Medicine Seeks Book Reviews
Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease, illness, health, and disability; violence, trauma, and power relations; and the cultures of biomedical science and technology and of the clinic, as these are represented and interpreted in verbal, visual, and material texts. Literature and Medicine features one thematic and one general issue each year. Past theme issues have explored identity and difference; contagion and infection; cancer pathography; the representations of genomics; and the narration of pain.
They are currently looking for suggestions for 1) recent publications to be reviewed and 2) reviewers for titles on their list. If you have suggestions for either, please fill out this form or contact Book Review Editor, Travis Chi Wing Lau, directly at lau1@kenyon.edu.
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- Grant Program for Evaluating Outcomes: Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education, application deadline 9/15/20
- Medical Heritage Library Conference 2020, abstract deadline 9/18/20
- NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, deadline 9/25/20
- 2020 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 9/25/20
- Caring and Sharing: Health and Humanities in Today’s World, abstract deadline 10/31/20
- Who Is a Good Death For? (Departures in Critical Qualitative Research Critical Interventions Forum), submission deadline 2/1/21
- Medical Humanities-BMJ Seeks Blog Content on This Year’s Theme: Access, rolling deadline
- 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
- Black Voices in Healthcare: A New Audio Documentary Storytelling Project from The Nocturnists, open until further notice
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Events & Conferences
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September Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds
“Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity,” a talk by writer Danielle Spencer, PhD
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Maesters, Greyscale, and Milk of the Poppy: Medicine in Game of Thrones
An illustrated, live Zoom lecture with Rare Book Librarian Elisabeth Brander
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While We Were COVID-ing: Innovation at a Time of Crisis
Thomas L. Friedman in conversation with Gidi Grinstein
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The Write Prescription: Telling Stories to Process the Pandemics of COVID-19 and Racism
Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have to acknowledge and defuse the impact of trauma on our physical and mental health. This workshop, led by author Judith Hannan, will bring together medical professionals to write their stories in response to carefully tailored prompts.
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Typhoid Fever and the Origins of Epidemiology in Victorian Britain
A talk by Jacob Steere-Williams, PhD, hosted by the New York Academy of Medicine
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Narrative Medicine & The Creative Impulse
Hosted by the Division of Narrative Medicine at Columbia. Early Bird Registration of $50 off tuition through October 9. Standard registration open through October 16th, space permitting.
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