While we are working on the next blog commentary, check out a Lancet article by Jane Macnaughton, “The Dangerous Practice of Empathy,” a perspective on the art of medicine. Macnaughton argues that “true empathy derives from an experience of intersubjectivity >> Read more
Category: Medical Ethics
Interesting Lectures Online
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine’s Bullitt History of Medicine Club held numerous interesting talks in 2008-2009 that are available online at their site. Felice Aull
Let The Living Teach Physicians About Healing
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 In a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times (“Dead Body of Knowledge”) Christine Montross made >> Read more
Ethics and Aesthetics: Photographing Patients
Commentary by Ana Blohm, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; physician in Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program; co-director, Humanities and Medicine Program in the Division of General Internal Medicine “Is it OK if I take your >> Read more
Thoughts For The Season
Commentary by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A., editor of this blog and of the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database. A few thoughts as this blog editor takes a holiday break until after the New Year: In honor of the season, we >> Read more
Narrative Genetics: Following the Trail of Spit
Commentary by Marsha Hurst, Ph.D., Narrative Medicine Program,; faculty member and Research Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University; co-editor with Sayantani DasGupta of Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies (Kent >> Read more
The Story Always Comes First
Commentary by Jay Baruch, author of Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients and Other Strangers (Kent State University Press, 2007). Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director, Ethics Curriculum, at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University Question: What do you >> Read more