Medical Humanities Community : USA : Massachusetts

• Boston University School of Public Health
  • George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H.
    Chair, Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights
    715 Albany St, Talbot Building
    Boston, MA 02118
    annasgj@bu.edu

  • Michael Grodin, M.D. (Medical Ethics, Philosophy and Medicine, Religion and Medicine)
    Director, Law, Medicine and Ethics Program
    grodin@bu.edu

• Harvard Medical School
  • Dan W. Brock, Ph.D. (Medical Ethics)
    Department of Social Medicine
    Director, Division of Medical Ethics
    mail to: HMS Division of Medical Ethics
    C/O Harvard School of Public Health
    FXB Building
    651 Huntington Avenue, 6th Floor
    Boston, MA 02115
    (617) 432-5131; FAX: (617) 432-3721; cell: (617) 877-5142
    dan_brock@hms.harvard.edu
    

  • Rafael Campo, M.A., M.D., D. Litt.(Hon.) (Literature and Medicine, Cultural Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Professionalism)
    Healthcare Associates
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    330 Brookline Avenue
    Boston, MA 02215
    (617) 667-9699; FAX: (617) 667-9620
    rcampo@bidmc.harvard.edu
    http://www.rafaelcampo.com
    [Elective, open to medical students in all years: Arts, Literature and Healing]

  • Department of Social Medicine
    http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/

• Mount Ida College
  • Sandra L. Bertman, Ph.D. (Palliative Care and the Arts, Art and Medicine, Literature and Medicine)
    National Center for Death Education
    Write to: 159 Ward Street Studio
    Newton, MA 02459
    (617) 965-1257; FAX (617) 332-7273
    sbertman@comcast.net
    http://www.sandrabertman.com

• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
  • David E. Tanner, Ph.D.(Literature and Medicine)
    Dean, School of Arts and Sciences; Associate Professor of Humanities and American Studies
    School of Arts and Sciences
    MCPHS, 179 Longwood Avenue
    Boston, MA 02115
    (617)732-2908; FAX: (617)732-2959
    dtanner@mcphs.edu
    [Medical Humanities minor, Medical Humanities interest group]

• Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Lynn C. Epstein, M.D., DLFAPA, FAACAP (Medical Humanities, Literature and Medicine)
    Psychiatry faculty Tufts, and Clinical Professor Emerita, Brown Medical School
    Mail to: 4 Longfellow Place, # 2607
    Boston, MA 02114
    (857) 919- 1598
    Lynn.Epstein@tufts.edu

• University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Emily Ferrara, M.A. (Literature and Medicine, Medical Humanities, Medical Creative Writing)
    Director, Grants & Special Projects
    Office of Medical Education
    faculty, Dept. of Family Medicine & Community Health
    UMass Medical School
    55 Lake Avenue North
    Worcester, MA 01655
    (508) 856-5134; FAX: (508) 856-5536
    emily.ferrara@umassmed.edu
    http://emilyferrara.net
    [Elective, Yr 2: Medical Creative Writing, taught with David Hatem, M.D.]

  • Ellen S. More, Ph.D. (History of Medicine, Women in Medicine)
    Director, Lamar Soutter Library Office of Medical History and Archives
    Professor of Psychiatry
    Lamar Soutter Library
    55 Lake Avenue North
    Worcester, MA 01655
    (508) 856-7633
    Ellen.More@umassmed.edu