Guy Glass, MD, MFA, Clinical Assistant Professor Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics Stony Brook School of Medicine I am a psychiatrist who writes plays and has several professional productions and published plays to my credit. Having recently >> Read more
Category: New Conceptual Frameworks
The Patient Experience Book Club at NYU Langone Medical Center
When an AP reporter called to tell Erika Goldman, publisher of the Bellevue Literary Press, that its novel, Tinkers, by Paul Harding, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, “it was akin to receiving a blow to the head,” she >> Read more
English Departments and Healthcare
how professors of English might benefit from interaction with health care professionals
The “Parallel ‘Parallel Chart’”
Commentary by Hedy S. Wald, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI May, 2006. We treated our Doctoring small group to a nice home-cooked meal to celebrate the conclusion of their >> Read more
Fostering Interdisciplinary Community: A Humanities Perspective
many of us in the interdisciplinary field of medical humanities believe that it is only through a meeting of the minds between biomedicine and other fields such as literature, art, philosophy and history that we can understand the experiences of patients and providers of care (roles that almost all of us will inhabit at some point in our lives).
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
Locating Narrative In Medicine's Moral Domain: Notes (Musical And Otherwise) From A Recent Presentation
Commentary by Martin Kohn, Cofounder and Senior Associate for Program Development, Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College, and retired faculty, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine My wife is a nephrologist. She loves kidneys (and how >> Read more
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
Here I Am and Nowhere Else: Portraits of Care by Mark Gilbert at the Intersection of Art and Medicine
Commentary by Virginia Aita, PhD, William Lydiatt, MD, Mark Gilbert, BA (artist), Hesse McGraw, MA and Mark Masuoka, MFA Introduction The exhibition “Here I Am and Nowhere Else: Portraits of Care” explored 45 individual’s experiences with health, illness and caregiving. >> Read more
Embodied/Disembodied
Commentary by Joyce Cutler-Shaw, artist; Artist in Residence, School of Medicine of the University of California San Diego History is story telling with images embedded in memory. The history of anatomy is a history of human representation: how we are >> Read more