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How to Grow a Healthcare Humanities Program: 15 Steps For Success In Harsh Economic Times

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Allan Peterkin, MD., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, University of Toronto; Head of The Program in Narrative and Healthcare Humanities; founding editor, ARS MEDICA: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and HumanitiesMost medical schools in North America have Bioethics divisions but not all have humanities programs. In the current climate of funding cutbacks andloss ...     11-18
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Creating And Maintaining Participant Interest In The Medical Humanities

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by P. Ravi Shankar, M.D., Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal In previous blog articles I looked at medical humanities teaching in Nepal, explored the link between trekking and the medical humanities in a Nepalese context, and discussed the benefits and disadvantages of English as the language of medical humanities teaching. In this article I w...     10-29
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Disease Causality

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Daniel Goldberg, J.D., Ph.D. Health Policy & Ethics Fellow, Chronic Disease Prevention & Control Research Center, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Research Faculty, Initiative on Neuroscience & Law, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine There is a legal doctrine known as "attractive nuisance."The basic idea of the concept, grounded in t...     10-13
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Dr. Fleischmann Draws Dr. Munk In Terezin

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Michael Nevins, M.D., author of Jewish Medicine: What it is and Why it Matters and A Tale of Two "Villages": Vineland and Skillman, NJ. This commentary written in conjunction with an exhibit at New York University School of Medicine, Sept. 24-Oct.19: Art and Medicine in Terezin. All of us felt a sense of sliding helplessness, again and again, day after day, night after night, you des...     09-29
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The Story As Chameleon:A Transformation

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Patricia Stanley, M.B.A., M.A., Guest Faculty, Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia Universitys College of Physicians and Surgeons; Clinical Coordinator, Masters in Narrative Medicine There is a short story, "The Shawl", by Louise Erdrich, which is about story and memory and the reworking of old stories into new ones to effect healing. (1)A story of a child being thrown to the wol...     09-15
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Is Medical Uncertainty Necessary?

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Caroline Wellbery, M.D., Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center; Associate Deputy Editor, American Family Physician Medical uncertainty is all around us AIn medicine we are quite often confronted with 'not knowing, with 'choices,A with 'multifactorial etiologies, and 'inconclusiveness, to name just a few of the states to whichA we can apply the t...     08-31
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The Healthcare Debate And Disability Studies

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Two related items in the Science Times section of Tuesdays New York Times (July 26) drew my attention. One was Dr. Abigail Zugers book review of Normal at Any Cost by authors Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove and the other was an essay entitled To Overhaul the System, Health Needs Redefining, by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch.What these articles have in common is that both ask us to re-examine what is mean...     07-30
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Summer Blogging: Traveller’s Joy

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- We are taking a break from our regular essay commentaries until September.  In the meantime, there will be occasional short postings, mostly by me (Felice Aull).  This image of the plant, Travellers Joy, invokes this summer interludethe pleasure of enjoying gardens, parks, nature (at least in the northern hemisphere) and of vacation traveling, but also the possibilities for intellectual travel, cr...     07-21
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Celebrating July 6

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Bert Hansen, Ph.D., Professor of History, Baruch College, The City University of New York. Author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America (Rutgers University Press, 2009).In people’s minds, July 6 rings no bells.It lights no anniversary fireworks.Yet we all live in a world of new discoveries, headlines procl...     07-07
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The Family Portrait Project

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Mary Spano, Medical Photographer, The Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center. Spano’s work is on exhibit from June 29-August 31 in the Smilow Gallery at NYU School of Medicine. Free and open to the public. In October of 2006 I joined the team at the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center, as its medical photographer....     06-30
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Locating Narrative In Medicine’s Moral Domain: Notes (Musical And Otherwise) From A Recent Presentation

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Martin Kohn, Cofounder and Senior Associate for Program Development, Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College, and retired faculty, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine My wife is a nephrologist. She loves kidneys (and how they function) almost as much as she loves me. We recently celebrated our 23rd anniversary. She’s a deductive think...     06-16
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Of Current Interest

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- 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 argues that true empathy derives from an experience of intersubjectivity and this cannot be achieved in the doctor-patient relationship.It is potentially dangerous and certainly unrealistic to suggest that we can real...     06-09
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Interesting Lectures Online

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- The University of North Carolina School of Medicines Bullitt History of Medicine Club held numerous interesting talks in 2008-2009 that are available online at their site. Felice Aull     05-28
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Scarred For Life.Physically, Not So Much Mentally

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Ted Meyer, Los Angeles-based artist. Meyers work is on exhibit through June 15 in the Smilow Gallery at NYU School of Medicine. Free and open to the public.Every time I travel, people ask me if I expect to incorporate my travels into my painting.Will there be an Indian elephant or a zebra showing up in my work?I tell them all that I am not that sort of artist. No landscapes or sunset...     05-19
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Walking The Dog: Incorporating Poetry To Help Learners Connect With Relationship-Centered Care

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Johanna Shapiro, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Director, Program in Medical Humanities & Arts, University of California Irvine School of MedicineTheories of relationship-centered care The concept of relationship-centered care (RCC) (1) and the related theory of human interaction designated Complex Responsive Processes of Relating (2) remain exceptionally fru...     05-01
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English As The Language Of Medical Humanities Learning In Nepal: Our Experiences

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by P. Ravi Shankar, M.D. and Rano Mal Piryani, M.D., Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal A previous blog (Shankar R., Medical Humanities: Sowing the Seeds in the Himalayan Country of Nepal). and journal articles (1, 2) described medical humanities modules at two Nepalese medical schools. Here we discuss some aspects of language choice when teaching med...     04-22
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Let The Living Teach Physicians About Healing

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A.; Adjunct Associate Curator, New York University School of Medicine; Editor in Chief, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database In a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times (Dead Body of Knowledge) Christine Montross made a plea to continue the long tradition of cadaver dissection in medical education.  Montross, a physician and author of the thoughtful book, B...     04-13
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“Here I Am and Nowhere Else: Portraits of Care” by Mark Gilbert at the Intersection of Art and Medicine

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Virginia Aita, PhD, William Lydiatt, MD, Mark Gilbert, BA (artist), Hesse McGraw, MA and Mark Masuoka, MFA Introduction  The exhibition Here I Am and Nowhere Else: Portraits of Care explored 45 individuals experiences with health, illness and caregiving. Three-thousand people attended the inaugural ten-week exhibition of the works that concluded on February 21, 2009 at the Bemis Cent...     03-28
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Embodied/Disembodied

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- 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 anatomy is a history of human representation: how we are seen and how we see ourselves. Visual images are continually shaped and re-shaped by the enthusiasms and preconceptions of the present. The visual r...     03-11
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Nurturing Reflection and Humanistic Practice:Growing Humanities Programs at a Suburban Community Hospital

Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog -- Commentary by Nancy Gross, MMH, MA, Palliative Care Community Liaison and Facilitator/Scholar of Humanities Programs,  Overlook Hospital/Atlantic Health, Summit, New Jersey The humanities are the hormonesto infect with the spirit of the Humanities is the greatest single gift in education. Williams Osler, The Old Humanities and the New Science (1)          Humanities Programs at OverlookHospital Si...     02-23
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