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.
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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
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
The Story As Chameleon: A Transformation
Commentary by Patricia Stanley, M.B.A., M.A., Guest Faculty, Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons; Clinical Coordinator, Masters in Narrative Medicine There is a short story, “The Shawl”, by Louise Erdrich, which is about story and >> Read more
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
Walking The Dog: Incorporating Poetry To Help Learners Connect With Relationship-Centered Care
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 Theories of relationship-centered care The concept of relationship-centered care (RCC) (1) and the related theory >> Read more
English As The Language Of Medical Humanities Learning In Nepal: Our Experiences
Commentary by P. Ravi Shankar, M.D. and Rano Mal Piryani, M.D., Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal A previous blog (Shankar R., Medical Humanities: Sowing the Seeds in the Himalayan Country of Nepal). and journal articles (1, >> Read more
Announcement: Center for the Humanities and Health
King’s College London has established a Center for the Humanities and Health, with the help of a Wellcome Trust award. They are offering a research fellowship. The deadline for submission is May 5.
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