Anne Stiles’ most recent book, Children’s Literature and the Rise of “Mind Cure” examines the confluence of religion and health within the context of children’s fiction.
Category: Interviews
Interview with JOEL SHULKIN, Physician/Writer
Joel Shulkin, MD is an author and practicing physician. A 1999 graduate of New York University School of Medicine, He is currently in the practice of developmental behavioral pediatrics.
Howling Basset Books Comes to Rural New Jersey
Zohar Kfir and Lisa Lynch recently opened Howling Basset Books, a brick-and-mortar bookstore, in an old Victorian house in Oldwick, New Jersey.
“Hunger Pains: Andrew Mangham, Ph.D., on Medicine & Starvation in Victorian Literature”
As the founder and director of the Centre for Health Humanities and a professor of English at the University of Reading, UK, Andrew Mangham, Ph.D., has published extensively on medicine and Victorian literature.
Interview with Carla Joinson, author of Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians.
Carla Joinson is an independent scholar based in Church Hill, Tennessee. Published in 2016 by the University at Nebraska Press, Joinson’s Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum …
Interview with Jim LeBrecht, co-director of Crip Camp
Students in the Medical Humanities elective at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine had the opportunity to interview Jim LeBrecht, co-director of the Oscar nominated documentary Crip Camp. The …
Interview with John Hoffman, Co-director of Fauci
In February 2022, students enrolled in the Medical Humanities elective at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, met with John Hoffman to discuss Fauci, a 2021 documentary he co-directed with Janet Tobias on the life and work of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Taking a Shot: An Interview with Daniela J. Lamas, MD, on the Covid-19 Vaccination
The narrative captures a range of emotions following your Covid-19 vaccination. There is a dual sense of relief and ephemerality as you sit in the hospital’s waiting room for the fifteen-minute post-vaccination period. You reflect on your patients, illness, mortality, and the hope that the vaccine affords. What was unusual about these fifteen minutes? What made this period reflective?
End-of-Life Dreams & Visions
There’s a memorable poignancy to the beginning of your book. The nurse Nancy tells you, with gritty certitude, that a forty-year-old, HIV-positive man is terminally ill and dying
