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
Summer Blog Hiatus
The Literature, Arts, and Medicine Blog is taking a break until September. We invite you to read some of the more than 20 blog commentaries posted during the past year. Thanks for your support and attention! Felice Aull, editor
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
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
An Initiative in Narrative Professionalism
Commentary by Jack Truten, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine at Hershey; Chair of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia’s Section on Medicine and the Arts; consultant in medical ethics and professionalism Background >> 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
Medical Humanities: Sowing the Seeds in the Himalayan Country of Nepal
Commentary by P. Ravi Shankar, M.D., Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal Nepal, a country in the lap of the Himalayas is still predominantly agricultural. The majority of the festivals and cultural events have a strong >> 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
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