Commentary by Linda Raphael, Ph.D., Director of Medical Humanities and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences My introduction to medicine and humanities occurred at a Narrative Medicine Seminar in New York in 2003. I was attracted to the >> Read more
The Craft of Writing: A Workshop for Doctors-in-training
Commentary by Anna Reisman, M.D., Co-Director, Department of Internal Medicine Writers’ Workshop, Yale University School of Medicine In this blog, I’ll tell you about a writing workshop for residents at Yale that centers on the craft of writing, and I’ll >> Read more
What is Biocultures?
Commentary by Bradley Lewis, M.D., Ph.D., Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University In my first contribution to this new blog (which I am very happy to see developing), I would like to tell the medical humanities community about >> Read more
The Patients as Teachers, Medical Students as Filmmakers VIdeo Project: The Video Slam
Commentary by Dan Shapiro, Ph.D., Director, Medical Humanities Program, University of Arizona College of Medicine Last year I asked 8 medical students to make films about patients. In pairs, they spent 8 months visiting and filming a patient and filming >> Read more
Welcome to the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Blog!
Purpose: This blog is intended to promote communication and discussion among scholars, educators, and students working in interdisciplinary fields that utilize humanities, social sciences, and the arts to address current issues in medicine and bioscience. Why do we need this >> Read more