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 …
Category: The Artist Studio
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 …
The Story Always Comes First
Commentary by Jay Baruch, author of Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients and Other Strangers (Kent State University Press, 2007). Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director, Ethics Curriculum, at the Warren …
Connections
Commentary by Madge McKeithen, M.F.A., writer, and teacher of writing at The New School, New York City A poem…can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of our …
Writing And Medicine: Making It Up As You Go Along
Commentary by Perri Klass, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Journalism at New York University, and Medical Director of the national literacy program, Reach Out and Read Many many …
A Psychiatrist and a Poet
Commentary by Ron Charach, M.D., Toronto psychiatrist, poet, and essayist. To be both a psychiatrist and a poet is either a dual calling or a double whammy, depending on what …
Toward a New Aesthetic of the Body
Commentary by Laura Ferguson, Artist working in New York City Can a deformed body be beautiful? Yes, through an artist’s eyes – and I believe art can help medicine to …