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

The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19

"What was the role of narrative in the making of long COVID?" Through close readings, authors Katharine Cheston, Marta-Laura Cenedese, and Angela Woods consider how vital narratives — both individual and collective — can be to our understanding of both patient experiences and illness itself.

Continue reading in Journal of Medical Humanities

Patients Are Humans Too: The Emergence of Medical Humanities

This essay by historian and scholar Keith Wailoo looks at the origins and growth of the field of medical humanities and "traces how the original idea of 'humanizing physicians' evolved and how crises from death and dying, to AIDS and COVID-19, expanded humanistic inquiry into health, illness, and the human condition."

Continue reading in Daedalus

Writing our Futures Possible: Inspirations from the Dementia Letter Project

Medical anthropologists Annelieke Driessen and Hannah Cowan highlight eight letters from the Dementia Letters project to explore how creative writing opened up possibilities for the letters' authors to imagine their future selves.

Continue reading in Medicine Anthropology Theory

Creating Better Public Health One Story at a Time

Dr. David Fakunle, president of the National Association of Black Storytellers and faculty member at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about using storytelling to promote health and wellbeing: "We are all using some form of creative energy, and it does have a correlation and sometimes causation with our health and wellbeing. What if we do that with more intentionality?"

Continue reading in American Artscape Magazine

Agora, The Arts and Literature Magazine of NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Agora's latest issue — its first in five years — features creative work on the theme of "Transitions," exploring how recent events have impacted students, patients, healthcare, the scientific community, and society at large.

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The white coat: scientist’s uniform, spiritual garment, symbol of care and great responsibility

In a guest post on the Gold Foundation blog, Dr. Ryan McCarthy, faculty member at West Virginia University School of Medicine and founder of the Healthcare is Human project, reflects on the meaning of the white coat: "For so many years, I worked in my coat and did not give it my proper attention. Now, after a pandemic, I am evaluating my career and its symbols, thinking about what it all means."

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Quick Links:

• To better understand addiction, students in this course take a close look at liquor in literature
• Performing HeLa: theatrical bodies and living remains
• What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis?
• Inviting Psychology to the Cocktail Party: How a dialogue with the humanities can enrich psychological science
• Language is medicine: For First Nations people, health is not a matter of mechanical fitness of the body, but of language, identity and belonging

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.

• Become an Exhibitor or Sponsor: collaborate, showcase, and amplify your organization’s work around humanism in healthcare
• Are you someone who enjoys a challenge? Join the Healthcare Barriers Hackathon at the Gold Humanism Summit

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More opportunities:

• "Uncovered: Revealing Hidden Topics" The Midwest Medical/Health Humanities Student Conference: call for proposals from students, deadline 12/22/23
• American Osler Society Medical Trainee Poetry Anthology, deadline 12/31/23
• Journal of Medical Humanities: call for poems on the theme of coming apart and/or becoming whole, deadline 3/15/24
• Journal of Loss and Trauma: call for manuscripts for a Special Issue on "Mindfulness for mitigating loss and trauma," deadline 3/31/24
• AMA Journal of Ethics: call for artwork - "Embodiment in Art Practice," deadline 7/30/24
• Graphic Medicine Review: call for manuscripts, no deadline

Dec. 5

STEAM at NYAM: A Night of Opera and Learning - U.S. premiere of American Opera Project’s Semmelweis (New York, NY)

Dec. 6

Narrative Medicine Rounds: "Your Hearts, Your Scars by Adina Talve-Goodman," a reading and discussion with Sarika Talve-Goodman (online)

Dec. 7

Narrative Showcase: Dementia Stories for Impact (online)

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