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The Medical Humanities Review

A public voice cultivating empathy & critical thinking in health, culture & the arts

The Medical Humanities Review ➔

A public voice cultivating empathy & critical thinking in health, culture & the arts for a deeper understanding of the human experience.

Podcast

AI: The Next Challenge for Bioethics with Prof Arthur Caplan

Explore how bioethics evolves to address the rapid integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Russell Teagarden 11.09.26

Reflection

The Machines Will See You Now

As AI moves into healthcare, can it replicate the healing virtues of empathy and compassion?

Jack Coulehan 11.03.26

Reflection

Dying for a Diagnosis

What research can and cannot do for a song about waiting

Kieran Simkin 10.27.26

Book Review

DNA is just a Molecule

Archeologist Anna Källén questions the role of a DNA in understanding the remote past.

Jacalyn Duffin 10.22.26

Happenings ➔

Kramer/Fauci: What Gets Lost in the Bubbles

A historic exchange, but an incomplete history (now thru 10/24 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York)

Rudy Malcom 10.08.26

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Reviews ➔

Book Review

Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett

A measles outbreak in the Ruggles family sends children to the isolation hospital and recuperation in the English…

Gretl Lam 10.13.26

Book Review Video

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

A central theme of the novel is how people cope with the unpredictability of life.

Howard Trachtman 10.06.26

Film Review Video

Even the Gods Cannot Save Odysseus from PTSD

The story of The Odyssey is many things, not the least of which is a story of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Kit Neikirk 09.28.26

Book Review

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

Atwood’s retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest unfolds in an unlikely setting.

Jacalyn Duffin 09.23.26

Articles ➔

Reflection

Chronicity – The Third Fragment

The constant-ness of a condition. What it means for something to be ever-changing and ever-present at the same…

José Luis Marín Aznárez 10.19.26

Reflection

Aging as Destiny

A provocative novel about aging, mortality, agency, risk, and the uncertain bargains we make with destiny.

Russell Teagarden 09.12.26

Reflection

Graphic Medicine: A Path for Understanding, Education, and Advocacy

A visual form of storytelling comes into its own.

Nancy Novick 09.05.26

Reflection

Illness Unfolds Before Your Eyes

A video game removes player control to simulate how the lived experience of illness disrupts time and space

Kit Neikirk 08.25.26

Interviews ➔

Practitioner Interview Video

Rethinking Mental Illness: Interview with Dr. Gavin Francis

In his chair at the clinic, Dr. Gavin Francis sees the mind as much less fragile than the…

Rudy Malcom 07.14.26

Practitioner Interview

Podcast

Against Medical Nihilism Through Perseverance and Humility with Dr Ross Upshur

Medical nihilism questions medicine’s uncertainty, treatment breakthroughs, and how we make thoughtful health care decisions.

Russell Teagarden 09.22.26

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