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AI: The Next Challenge for Bioethics with Prof Arthur Caplan

AI: The Next Challenge for Bioethics with Prof Arthur Caplan

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

The Machines Will See You Now 

The Machines Will See You Now 

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

ByJack Coulehan 11.03.26
Victorian Psycho and the Myth of the Madwoman 

Victorian Psycho and the Myth of the Madwoman 

A film challenges and reinforces historical stereotypes of female madness, rage, and psychological instability.

ByKit Neikirk 10.27.26
Dying for a Diagnosis 

Dying for a Diagnosis 

What research can and cannot do for a song about waiting 

ByKieran Simkin 10.27.26

This month we focus on the nexus of and interface between medicine and the humanities.

Margo Weishar: The Excellent Doctor Blackwell 

Margo Weishar: The Excellent Doctor Blackwell 

Margo Weishar explores Elizabeth Blackwell’s hidden life, ambition, and sacrifice ahead of a public reading.

ByGuy Glass 02.09.26
An Awkward Business by Anton Chekhov 

An Awkward Business by Anton Chekhov 

A country doctor grapples with guilt and class privilege after striking his drunken assistant in this tale of conscience and authority.

ByJack Coulehan 06.11.25
Ionych by Anton Chekhov 

Ionych by Anton Chekhov 

A provincial doctor’s romantic disillusionment gives way to greed and apathy in Chekhov’s biting portrait of emotional and moral decay.

ByJack Coulehan 03.11.25
Vaccination in Danger

Vaccination in Danger

Vaccine pioneer Stanley Plotkin reflects on the growing opposition to vaccination despite its proven, lifesaving impact worldwide.

DNA is just a Molecule 

DNA is just a Molecule 

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

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

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…

ByGretl Lam 10.13.26
Kramer/Fauci: What Gets Lost in the Bubbles 

Kramer/Fauci: What Gets Lost in the Bubbles 

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

ByRudy Malcom 10.08.26
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood 

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood 

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

Chronicity – The Third Fragment

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…

Aging as Destiny 

Aging as Destiny 

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

Illness Unfolds Before Your Eyes 

Illness Unfolds Before Your Eyes 

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

ByKit Neikirk 08.25.26
Rethinking Mental Illness: Interview with Dr. Gavin Francis

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…

ByRudy Malcom 07.14.26
Meet the Medhum Team: Dr. Tony Miksanek

Meet the Medhum Team: Dr. Tony Miksanek

Writer, runner, and medical humanities advocate explores storytelling, trust, vulnerability, and the human side of care.

ByDave Hsu 06.26.26
AI: The Next Challenge for Bioethics with Prof Arthur Caplan

AI: The Next Challenge for Bioethics with Prof Arthur Caplan

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

Against Medical Nihilism Through Perseverance and Humility with Dr Ross Upshur

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.

Kramer/Fauci: What Gets Lost in the Bubbles 

Kramer/Fauci: What Gets Lost in the Bubbles 

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

ByRudy Malcom 10.08.26

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