Commentary by Ted Meyer, Los Angeles-based artist. Meyer’s work is on exhibit through June 15 in the Smilow Gallery at NYU School of Medicine. Free and open to the public. Every time I travel, people ask me if I expect >> 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
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
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
Nurturing Reflection and Humanistic Practice: Growing Humanities Programs at a Suburban Community Hospital
Commentary by Nancy Gross, MMH, MA, Palliative Care Community Liaison and Facilitator/Scholar of Humanities Programs, Overlook Hospital/Atlantic Health, Summit, New Jersey “The humanities are the hormones…to infect with the spirit of the Humanities is the greatest single gift in education.” Williams >> Read more
Ethics and Aesthetics: Photographing Patients
Commentary by Ana Blohm, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; physician in Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program; co-director, Humanities and Medicine Program in the Division of General Internal Medicine “Is it OK if I take your >> Read more
The Mirror and Self-Knowledge
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