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Planetary Health Humanities—Responding to COVID Times
With the COVID-19 pandemic serving as a backdrop, Bradley Lewis asks "what is the role of health humanities in these viral times?" and advocates for the idea of a planetary health (and well-being) humanities.
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How Fine Art Can Help Doctors See Past Their Clinical Biases
Alexa Miller, MA—founder of Arts Practica, a medical education consultancy that uses fine art to enhance observation skills and improve quality in the clinic—discusses the benefits of visual arts training on diagnostic skills and awareness of implicit biases.
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Closler: Moving Us
Closer to Osler
Closler, a project whose mission is "stimulating healthcare professionals and trainees to reflect on giving exceptional care to every patient," features a growing collection of short reads for busy people.
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Transforming Pandemic Grief into Art
This interactive feature highlights the work of Ansel Oommen, who used his experiences as a clinical lab technologist during the early days of the of COVID-19 pandemic to turn grief and trauma into art.
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Highlights from Projects in the Humanities and Ethics at NYU Langone Health
New Annotation: Sebastian Galbo on
"Face Time" by Lorrie Moore
“Moore’s story describes the unsettling circumstances of socially distanced bedside visitation and communication with sick loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic.... How does our sense-making of illness change when suffering is not experienced as a proximate and physical presence but as a projection on a screen?”
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Mistrust and inconsistency during COVID-19: considerations for resource allocation guidelines that prioritize healthcare workers
In this new article, Alexander T.M. Cheung, a Rudin Medical Ethics and Humanities Fellow at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and his mentor Brendan Parent, JD, consider the ethics involved in prioritizing resources—from PPE to vaccines—for healthcare workers.
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
- Caring and Sharing: Health and Humanities in Today’s World, abstract deadline 10/31/20
- 2021 Health Humanities Consortium International Conference: “Crisis and Community: The Role of Health Humanities,” abstract deadline 10/31/20
- Pandemics & Epidemics in Cultural Representation, abstract deadline 11/15/20
- 23rd Annual Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) Conference, submission deadline 12/1/20
- Annual Kalanithi Writing Award, deadline 12/2/20
- William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition (open to students attending allopathic or osteopathic schools of medicine in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada), deadline 12/31/20
- Hidden Histories: Women and Science in the Twentieth Century, deadline 1/15/21
- Who Is a Good Death For? (Departures in Critical Qualitative Research Critical Interventions Forum), submission deadline 2/1/21
- Two Special Issues of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (click on Call for Papers tab), deadine 2/1/21
- Theme Issue of Literature and Medicine: Hunger and Waste, deadline 5/1/21
- Global Bioethics: "Redefining Global Bioethics in Today’s World," submissions are encouraged by 4/15/21 and will be accepted until 9/1/21
- 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
- Literature and Medicine Seeks Book Review Suggestions, no deadline
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Events & Conferences
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That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words
Playwright, activist, and performance artist V (formerly Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues, The Apology) turns her unique vision to the nurses on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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MedHumChat: A Question of Time
The #MedHumChat community will ponder A Question of Time with two pieces: “Solving for X” by Pam Durban and “Assiduously” by Claudia Castro Luna.
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Narrative Medicine Rounds:
“Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments”
A talk by author and professor Saidiya Hartman
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Virtual Tour: Life and Death in 1918
Join The Tenement Museum on YouTube Live for an exploration of the flu pandemic of 1918.
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NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop
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Whose Pain Matters? Reflections on Race, Social Justice, and COVID-19’s Revealed Inequalities
The NYU School of Global Public Health and its Center for Bioethics are partnering with The Greenwall Foundation to sponsor the 2020 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture, featuring a talk by Keith Wailoo, PhD, Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University.
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Writing Matters: Collaborative Writing
Sponsored by the NYU Center for the Humanities
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Circling Around Disability in Dance
A Conversation with Alice Sheppard and Jennifer Homans
Sponsored by the NYU Center for the Humanities
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