On September 23rd, 2019, the Masters Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine hosted a film screening of a recent documentary, Survivors, which chronicles the efforts of West African communities to contain the rapidly spreading and highly lethal Ebola virus outbreak which began in late 2013.
‘All my hurts my garden spade can heal’: Horticultural Therapy, Present & Future
Patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital in the late eighteenth century rarely enjoyed the hospital garden as a space of tranquil solitude. Just over the garden walls, past the blue wisteria and azaleas, had gathered the regular Sunday spectators who chattered about the patients who walked the lawns.
Writing “The Presentation on Egypt,” An interview with author Camille Bordas
Novelist, short story writer, and translator, Camille Bordas, was born in France. She’s the author of three novels, the first two written in her native French and the third, How to Behave in a Crowd, in English.
What’s in my white coat?
“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons,
the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
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Dr. Gabriel Redel-Traub‘We Have No Superpowers’: A New Doctor’s Lessons From the PandemicDr. Gabriel Redel-Traub is one of 52 members of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Class of 2020 …
Inside the Margins
An interview with Marianne R. Petit
Marianne R. PetitAssociate Arts Professor, Global Network Associate Arts ProfessorAssociate Vice Chancellor for Global Network Academic Planning Marianne R. Petit is an Associate Arts Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and …
Updates from the Rudin Fellowship
The Rudin Fellowship in Medical Ethics and Humanities was established as a core component of the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine (MSPHM) at NYU School of Medicine in 2014 through a generous grant …
Graphic Medicine: Making Comics at NYU School of Medicine
In the Fall of 2018, the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine (MSPHM) at NYU School of Medicine launched a new course called “Graphic Medicine,” developed by cartoonist and educator Kriota Willberg.
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of The House of God
It was a full house in Farkas auditorium, as the audience buzzed with excitement for an event 40 years in the making. People were gathered to celebrate The House of God, a work of fiction that laid bare some of the darker aspects of the medical profession and can be perceived as a harbinger of many reforms of the ensuing years.