Commentary by David Biro, MD, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and author of One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient. His new book, The Language of Pain, will be published by >> Read more
Category: New Conceptual Frameworks
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
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
Health: Stories in the Service of Making a Better Doctor By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Narrative medicine employs short stories, poems and essays to build empathy in young doctors.
Article on literature, narrative, and medicine, by physician author, Pauline Chen–with a link to a “Well” blog that drew comments on the article.
Disability In The Mirror of Art
Commentary by Tobin Siebers, V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, Professor of English Language and Literature, and Art & Design, University of Michigan Mirroring Nature Art is the mirror of nature, it has often been said, but what of disability reflected >> Read more
Teaching Medical Listening Through Oral History
Commentary by Sayantani DasGupta, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Core Faculty, Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University; and Faculty, Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College The mystery of illness stories is their expression of >> 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
Children of a Lesser God at Oxford
Commentary by David Henderson Slater, M.D., Consultant in Neurological Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, The Oxford Centre for Enablement, Oxford, England; and Laura May and Dora Steel, Class of 2010, University of Oxford Division of Medical Sciences A faculty perspective: Why >> Read more
Connections
Commentary by Madge McKeithen, M.F.A., writer, and teacher of writing at The New School, New York City A poem…can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of our lives, the fabricated wants and needs we have had urged >> Read more
Biocultures: Take 2
Commentary by Bernice L. Hausman, Ph.D.,Department of English, and coordinator of the undergraduate minor in Medicine and Society, Virginia Tech. On December 29, I acted as respondent to a panel on biocultures at the Modern Language Association meeting. The panel, >> Read more