A video game removes player control to simulate how the lived experience of illness disrupts time and space
Inside a Cave, Coming to Grips with the Mystery of Consciousness
During the clinic visit, the patient map unfurls, their hands leaving little clues.
New books highlighting illness poetry, the toll on compassion extracted during medical training, and the emotional burden of illness on family members
This month we focus on the nexus of and interface between medicine and the humanities.
This essay examines how policy, culture, and power quietly claim women’s bodies worldwide.
A powerful history of the Attica prison uprising exposing injustice, political power, and America’s carceral legacy.
Broadway revival of Tracy Letts’ Bug probes paranoia, race, and medical ethics.
A narrative exploring tuberculosis through history, inequality, medical progress, and global injustice.
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Children’s literature offers a lens into public perception and experience of childhood infectious diseases as we face a resurgence of these same…
Edvard Munch transformed personal family tragedies into haunting paintings that reveal illness, grief, isolation, and enduring emotional suffering.
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.
Using Pink Floyd’s The Wall, this episode explores psychiatric diagnosis through music, film, trauma, and medical education.
This podcast explores tuberculosis’ impact on opera, focusing on La Traviata and La Bohème, examining medical and cultural…
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