Drawing and writing came naturally to me while in rehabilitation after sustaining a traumatic brain injury and injuries to my spine, the result of being struck by a speeding car. They eased the physical, emotional and mental pain that were my constant companions and helped me find answers within.
Narrative Medicine: A New York Physician Blogs From Haiti
I can’t help calling attention to >a blog being written by Dr. Fritz François, an internist at NYU School of Medicine, who helped to coordinate a team of physicians, including himself, who are currently helping out in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. In >> Read more
Breast Milk As Medicine And Virus: Modern Maternity And HIV/AIDS
Mothers need to be understood as neither the repositories of pure nutrition nor the potentially infectious contaminators of the young, but as materially embedded subjects whose bodies are of this world as everyone’s are.
Nurse-Poet-Writer Cortney Davis Responds To Thomas Long's Blog On Nurse Writers
As medical schools began offering courses in the arts, humanities and creative writing as a way to increase students’ awareness of the “softer side” of caregiving, nursing programs hurried ever farther away from touch and ever closer to technology.
Remember The Nurses
Commentary by Thomas Lawrence Long, Associate Professor-in-Residence, School of Nursing, University of Connecticut Name three popular physician writers working today. Atul Gawande. Pauline Chen. Oliver Sacks. Jill Bolte Taylor. Jerome Groopman. Rafael Campo. Deepak Chopra. Edward de Bono. Andrew Weil. >> Read more
The Bellevue Literary Press
Commentary by Erika Goldman, Editorial Director, Bellevue Literary Press Our mission at Bellevue Literary Press is to publish books at the nexus of the arts and the sciences—with a special focus on medicine. What counts for us is high-quality, authoritative >> Read more
Rescuing Sympathy
Commentary by Jack Coulehan, M.D. M.P.H., Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine and Fellow, Center for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Stony Brook University, New York Many authors who write about empathy in medicine are careful to draw a bright line between >> Read more
How to Grow a Healthcare Humanities Program: 15 Steps For Success In Harsh Economic Times
Commentary by Allan Peterkin, MD., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, University of Toronto; Head of The Program in Narrative and Healthcare Humanities; founding editor, ARS MEDICA: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities Most medical schools in >> Read more
Creating And Maintaining Participant Interest In The Medical Humanities
Commentary by P. Ravi Shankar, M.D., Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal In previous blog articles I looked at medical humanities teaching in Nepal, explored the link between trekking and the medical humanities in a Nepalese >> Read more
Disease Causality
Commentary by Daniel Goldberg, J.D., Ph.D. Health Policy & Ethics Fellow, Chronic Disease Prevention & Control Research Center, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Research Faculty, Initiative on Neuroscience & Law, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine There >> Read more