an unusual opportunity to attend one or all of three plays that bear directly on individual experiences of illness, altered bodily states, and the cultural and social context in which those alterations occur.
Category: Old Archive
A Summer of Books
Here are some books I read during the past year or so that I found particularly absorbing, listed in no particular order.
Commentaries of Interest
While we are working on the next blog commentary, check out a Lancet article by Jane Macnaughton, “The Dangerous Practice of Empathy,” a perspective on the art of medicine. Macnaughton …
Health: Stories in the Service of Making a Better Doctor By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Narrative medicine employs short stories, poems and essays to build empathy in young doctors.
Article on literature, narrative, and medicine, by physician author, Pauline Chen–with a link to a “Well” blog that drew comments on the article.
Disability In The Mirror of Art
Commentary by Tobin Siebers, V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, Professor of English Language and Literature, and Art & Design, University of Michigan Mirroring Nature Art is the mirror of nature, …
A Medical Humanities Perspective On Racial Borderlands
Commentary by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A.; Associate Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine; Editor in Chief, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database I have long been …
The Story of C.: Teaching Poetry to Children with Disabilities
Commentary by Nicole Callihan, Teaching Artist for Teachers & Writers Collaborative and Language Lecturer at New York University Spring seems to be rearing her pretty little head again, and I …
Biocultures: Take 2
Commentary by Bernice L. Hausman, Ph.D.,Department of English, and coordinator of the undergraduate minor in Medicine and Society, Virginia Tech. On December 29, I acted as respondent to a panel …
What Is Medical Humanities and Why?
Commentary by Jack Coulehan, M.D., M.P.H., Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine and Fellow, Center for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Stony Brook University, New York “Medical humanities” is one of those …
