As AI moves into healthcare, can it replicate the healing virtues of empathy and compassion?
What research can and cannot do for a song about waiting
Archeologist Anna Källén questions the role of a DNA in understanding the remote past.
The constant-ness of a condition. What it means for something to be ever-changing and ever-present at the same time.
This month we focus on the nexus of and interface between medicine and the humanities.
Chekhov’s A Nervous Breakdown follows a law student’s moral collapse after confronting society’s apathy toward the realities of prostitution.
A country doctor grapples with guilt and class privilege after striking his drunken assistant in this tale of conscience and authority.
Our digital addiction is reshaping reality, and unless we reclaim real-world connections, the future may be irreversibly anxious.
John Barry’s The Great Influenza vividly recounts the 1918 pandemic’s medical, social, and political upheavals with novelistic precision.
A measles outbreak in the Ruggles family sends children to the isolation hospital and recuperation in the English…
A historic exchange, but an incomplete history.
A provocative novel about aging, mortality, agency, risk, and the uncertain bargains we make with destiny.
A visual form of storytelling comes into its own.
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.
Medical nihilism questions medicine’s uncertainty, treatment breakthroughs, and how we make thoughtful health care decisions.
A nurse’s graphic memoir reveals the human stories, suffering, and compassion behind the AIDS crisis.
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