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
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.
This month we focus on the nexus of and interface between medicine and the humanities.
In war-torn Vienna, 1918, artist Egon Schiele faces love, loss, and mortality as the Spanish flu devastates his family.
A powerful history of the Attica prison uprising exposing injustice, political power, and America’s carceral legacy.
Three poems explore cultural identity, family conflict, and the influence of media on class, belonging, and cross-cultural understanding.
Blending memoir and criticism, Sarah Chihaya’s Bibliophobia explores depression, identity, and the perilous yet healing power of books.
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 ➔
Edvard Munch transformed personal family tragedies into haunting paintings that reveal illness, grief, isolation, and enduring emotional suffering.
Love, Duty and Psychoanalysis in Third Reich Berlin
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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