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 sweeping new history examines how societies across millennia have regulated, resisted, and reshaped access to abortion.
A young doctor’s visit to a factory owner’s daughter reveals the emotional roots of illness through empathy, confinement, and human connection.
Heidi J. Larson explores the cultural, moral, and social roots of vaccine hesitancy before the Covid pandemic.
Broadway revival of Tracy Letts’ Bug probes paranoia, race, and medical ethics.
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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