Commentary by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A., Founding editor, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database and editor, this blog. It seems these next few days require a blog entry that digresses from our usual sequence of invited essays. The moment is of >> Read more
Category: A Different Take
Borderlands: A Theme and Syllabus for Medical Humanities Teaching
Commentary by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A.; Adjunct Associate Curator, New York University School of Medicine; Editor in Chief, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database Now that I’m semi-retired, an elective course that I developed and taught for fourth-year medical students is >> Read more
Trekking And The Medical Humanities
Commentary by P. Ravi Shankar, M.D., Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal Nepal, trekking, and new perspectives In a previous commentary for this blog I wrote about the development of medical humanities modules in two >> Read more
A Medical Humanities Perspective On Racial Borderlands
Commentary by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A.; Associate Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine; Editor in Chief, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database I have long been interested in the metaphor of borderlands as a tool for >> Read more
Teaching Film: A Perspective From Narrative Medicine
Commentary by Maura Spiegel, PhD; Associate Professor of English, Columbia University; Core Faculty, Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons Maybe it’s because classrooms are now routinely video-equipped, or because, as an attention-challenged culture, most of us >> Read more
The Story of C.: Teaching Poetry to Children with Disabilities
Commentary by Nicole Callihan, Teaching Artist for Teachers & Writers Collaborative and Language Lecturer at New York University Spring seems to be rearing her pretty little head again, and I find myself back in the Staten Island classroom working with >> Read more
What Is Medical Humanities and Why?
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 “Medical humanities” is one of those I-know-one-when-I-see-one terms. Taken literally, the two words have about the >> Read more
Further Reflections on Medical Humanities
Commentary by Johanna Shapiro, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Director, Program in Medical Humanities & Arts, University of California Irvine School of Medicine The intriguing musings of Brian Dolan on this blog (Medical Humanities: Education or Entertainment?) >> Read more
Medical Humanities: Education or Entertainment?
Commentary by Brian Dolan, Ph.D., Professor of Social Medicine and Medical Humanities at University of California at San Francisco A few weeks ago, I hosted a workshop for faculty from a number of campuses who work within medical centers and >> Read more