New books highlighting illness poetry, the toll on compassion extracted during medical training, and the emotional burden of illness on family members
Children’s literature offers a lens into public perception and experience of childhood infectious diseases as we face a resurgence of these same illnesses today.
Love, Duty and Psychoanalysis in Third Reich Berlin
Using Pink Floyd’s The Wall, this episode explores psychiatric diagnosis through music, film, trauma, and medical education.
This month we focus on the nexus of and interface between medicine and the humanities.
A powerful history of the Attica prison uprising exposing injustice, political power, and America’s carceral legacy.
Margo Weishar explores Elizabeth Blackwell’s hidden life, ambition, and sacrifice ahead of a public reading.
A provincial doctor’s romantic disillusionment gives way to greed and apathy in Chekhov’s biting portrait of emotional and moral decay.
International adoption from China arose amid policy-driven abandonment, later fostering trafficking incentives and coerced family separations.
A Call for Submissions: We invite you to share your work or propose a topic. Your ideas can help us explore the issues that matter most in medical humanities ➔
Arrowsmith (1925) marks a dramatic shift in the American imagination from viewing scientific doctors as monsters to viewing them as…
A memoir traces grief, identity, and love through food, memory, and cultural inheritance.
A watchful partner, a curse, a part of everything all at once, in sickness and in health.
Two unknown stories from the past forewarn of problems in health care ahead.
In his chair at the clinic, Dr. Gavin Francis sees the mind as much less fragile than the…
Writer, runner, and medical humanities advocate explores storytelling, trust, vulnerability, and the human side of care.
This podcast explores tuberculosis’ impact on opera, focusing on La Traviata and La Bohème, examining medical and cultural…
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