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

Top 10 medical memoirs … by patients

Looking for a summer read? This list highlights memoirs of trauma and recovery that weave together personal experience and the science behind illness. Featured titles include The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang and The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke.

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The Welcome Strangeness of René Magritte’s “The Healer”: Teaching Composite Works of Art

Medical humanities professors Woods Nash, PhD, MPH, and Andrew Childress, PhD, discuss a new teaching strategy sparked by artist Rene Magritte, wherein they guide medical learners to engage with composites, artworks consisting of incongruent elements. 

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Arts for Health Equity and Social Justice

This series from the International Arts + Mind Lab, an initiative from the Pedersen Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University, examines the role of the arts in social change. The collection spotlights Black writers, artists, scholars, scientists, and other experts in the BIPOC community who incorporate the arts as a tool for healing, resistance, and justice.

Explore the series

Quaranzines

During the Covid-19 pandemic, zines became a popular way to examine and share personal experiences of lockdown. In words and images, researcher and zine-maker Lea Cooper explores zines made by people "already familiar with 'staying at home,' working with disability or chronic illness."

Continue reading in The Wellcome Collection

NYU Langone LitMed Database: "Medical Humanities Conversations in India"

In this recent post in the LitMed Magazine, Dr. Ravi Shankar discusses challenges and opportunities related to expanding the field of medical humanities in India, highlighting his experiences and conversations with faculty and students at several medical schools.

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Announcing the winners of the 2023 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest

Three medical students and three nursing students were selected as winners of the Gold Foundation's 2023 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. This year’s winning essays tell stories about the power of human connection. They bring the reader into clinics, hospital rooms, and ERs, revealing delicate exchanges between caregivers and patients. The essays will be published this fall/winter in Academic Medicine and Journal of Professional Nursing.  

Read the announcement

Quick Links:

• Moving Through a Textual Space Autistically
• Shame, Guilt, and Medical Error in Ann Patchett's State of Wonder
• The Doctor Who Inspired Van Gogh’s Final Paintings
• Narrative Medicine Writing Saved My Sanity
• Teaching sustainable health care through the critical medical humanities

2024 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You

The 2024 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You, taking place February 29-March 2 in Atlanta, Georgia, will convene the Gold Foundation's many community members to explore best practices and strategies to fuel change and inspire action. All supporters of humanism in healthcare are welcome. This interprofessional, international event will be focused on igniting humanism to create the tangible changes necessary to heal the heart of healthcare.

Submissions are currently being accepted for:

• presentations (lecture, panel, workshop, poster); deadline: September 12
• artwork for an art gallery (physical and digital) and silent auction; deadline: October 1

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• 2023 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 9/22/23
• Writing Medicine: A Wellness Intervention for Healthcare Workers (Research Study, no deadline noted)
• The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America (call for audio stories, no deadline noted)

Jul 26

Engaging the Health Humanities to Further Health Equity and Justice: Innovations in Learner Assessment (online)

Aug 17

Navigating Grief Through the Healing Lens of Photos (online)

Sept 6

Visual Histories of Humor and Health: A Virtual Symposium (online)

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Feb 27

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

Oct 13-15

Fall Narrative Medicine Basic Workshop (New York, NY)

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