From the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health and the Gold Foundation

Medicine, emotience, and reason

John F. Clark describes a novel schema that proposes "not only two distinct natural kinds of process in the human mind, here termed intelligence and emotience, but two distinct natural kinds of knowledge, intellectual and emotional," and its practical applications in medical practice.

Continue reading in Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine

The origin of the popular iconic heart symbol: fiction or facts?

Where did the popular heart shape — used to depict sentiments of love and affection — originate? Gabriele Fragasso and Mauro Carlino look back in history to trace its origins and propose a connection to the real shape of the human heart.

Continue reading in Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine

Collaborative reflection and discussion using the narrative medicine approach: speech acts and physician identity

This study by Shanshan Li, Libo Zhong, and Yaping Cai analyzes the collaborative reflection and discussion of medical narratives through the lens of “speech acts” and how they relate to different physician identities (e.g., “the spokesperson for the patient’s wishes,” “the empathizer who offers love and help”).

Continue reading in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Health Story Hub

The newly launched Health Story Hub is an open access website that offers a searchable database of stories and teaching materials about illness, wellness, disability, medicine, healing, and caregiving. The collections include first-person narratives, images, podcasts, poems, and videos, as well as sample syllabi, assignments, writing prompts, and class outlines.

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Featured Annotation: Severance

In this annotation from the NYU Langone LitMed Database archive, Gerard Brungardt writes of the series Severance: "Many of the internal medicine residents I work with have seen Severance and we have enjoyed discussing it. One theme that emerges is that everyone has a back story, a personal history, a narrative thread of their life."

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Call for Abstracts: 2025 Gold Humanism Summit

The Gold Foundation invites abstract submissions for the 2025 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You, taking place September 17-20, 2025, in Baltimore. Proposals should reflect a humanistic approach to healthcare – defined as safe, kind, and engendering trust – and demonstrate action-oriented approaches that directly impact the way patient care is delivered.

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Quick Links:

• Transformative experiences at art museums to support flourishing in medicine
• Illness Narratives Without the Illness: Biomedical HIV Prevention Narratives from East Africa
• Hidden in plain sight: the covering of patients’ eyes and a microethics of medical photography
• One hundred years of neurosciences in the arts and humanities, a bibliometric review
• A podcast to teach medical humanities at medical school: a text-mining study of students’ lived experience

• Two New York Academy of Medicine Library Fellowships, deadline 8/23/24
• 14th Annual Midwestern Medical Humanities Conference: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, deadline 9/15/24
• 2024 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 9/23/24
• Special issue of Studies in the Novel: Disability and Disease in the Novel, deadline 10/1/24
• Special issue of Medical Humanities-BMJ on “The Future of Medical Humanities,” deadline 10/1/24
• Health Humanities Consortium Conference 2025: "Healing Institutions," deadline 10/8/24
• 2025 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You, abstract deadline 11/4/24
• Special issue of Analetica Hermeneutica: Rethinking patient-centered care: Exploring the interpretive and relational nature of clinical practice, deadline 1/1/25
• Panacea: online newsletter for and by patients, providers, caregivers and beyond, no deadline

Sep. 4

Narrative Medicine Rounds: “Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine,” a conversation with Dr. Damon Tweedy moderated by Dr. Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford (online)

Sep. 4-6

2024 Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine Conference (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

Sep. 16

Reading the Body: Film Premiere and Panel Conversation on Dance, Poetry and the Body Politic (New York, NY)

Sep. 18-21

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Annual Conference (St. Louis, MO)

Sep. 21

Finding Our Voices: Humanities In Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)

Sep. 24

Jefferson Humanities Forum - Ricardo Nuila: The People's Hospital (Philadelphia, PA)

Sep. 24 - Feb. 18

Training our Eyes, Minds and Hearts: Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Care Professionals (online)

Oct. 5 & Nov. 2

Narrative in End-of-Life Care: Tools for Communication and Compassionate Care (online)

Oct. 9 - Nov. 20

Nourishing Narratives: Creative Strategies for Well-being (online)

Oct. 18-20

Foundational Narrative Medicine Virtual Workshop (online)

Oct. 21-23

Global Health Humanities Symposium (San Antonio, TX)

Oct. 25

14th Annual Midwestern Medical Humanities Conference: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (online)

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