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AI: The Next Challenge for Bioethics with Prof Arthur Caplan

AI: The Next Challenge for Bioethics with Prof Arthur Caplan

Explore how bioethics evolves to address the rapid integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

The Machines Will See You Now 

The Machines Will See You Now 

As AI moves into healthcare, can it replicate the healing virtues of empathy and compassion?

ByJack Coulehan 11.03.26
Dying for a Diagnosis 

Dying for a Diagnosis 

What research can and cannot do for a song about waiting 

ByKieran Simkin 10.27.26
DNA is just a Molecule 

DNA is just a Molecule 

Archeologist Anna Källén questions the role of a DNA in understanding the remote past.

This month we focus on the nexus of and interface between medicine and the humanities.

Margo Weishar: The Excellent Doctor Blackwell 

Margo Weishar: The Excellent Doctor Blackwell 

Margo Weishar explores Elizabeth Blackwell’s hidden life, ambition, and sacrifice ahead of a public reading.

ByGuy Glass 02.09.26
Pushback: Mary Fissell looks back at 2500 years of abortion history

Pushback: Mary Fissell looks back at 2500 years of abortion history

A sweeping new history examines how societies across millennia have regulated, resisted, and reshaped access to abortion.

ByNancy Novick 12.11.25
A Missing Genre: Video Games in the Health Humanities 

A Missing Genre: Video Games in the Health Humanities 

Video games offer powerful narratives and emotional depth—it’s time health humanities embraced them as meaningful, transformative cultural texts.

The Grasshopper by Anton Chekhov

The Grasshopper by Anton Chekhov

Chekhov’s tragic tale of love, betrayal, and regret, where a devoted doctor’s sacrifice exposes life’s cruel ironies.

ByJack Coulehan 05.11.25
Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett 

Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett 

A measles outbreak in the Ruggles family sends children to the isolation hospital and recuperation in the English…

ByGretl Lam 10.13.26
Kramer/Fauci: What Gets Lost in the Bubbles 

Kramer/Fauci: What Gets Lost in the Bubbles 

A historic exchange, but an incomplete history. 

ByRudy Malcom 10.08.26
Chronicity – The Third Fragment

Chronicity – The Third Fragment

The constant-ness of a condition. What it means for something to be ever-changing and ever-present at the same…

Aging as Destiny 

Aging as Destiny 

A provocative novel about aging, mortality, agency, risk, and the uncertain bargains we make with destiny.

Rethinking Mental Illness: Interview with Dr. Gavin Francis

Rethinking Mental Illness: Interview with Dr. Gavin Francis

In his chair at the clinic, Dr. Gavin Francis sees the mind as much less fragile than the…

ByRudy Malcom 07.14.26
Meet the Medhum Team: Dr. Tony Miksanek

Meet the Medhum Team: Dr. Tony Miksanek

Writer, runner, and medical humanities advocate explores storytelling, trust, vulnerability, and the human side of care.

ByDave Hsu 06.26.26
AI: The Next Challenge for Bioethics with Prof Arthur Caplan

AI: The Next Challenge for Bioethics with Prof Arthur Caplan

Explore how bioethics evolves to address the rapid integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Against Medical Nihilism Through Perseverance and Humility with Dr Ross Upshur

Against Medical Nihilism Through Perseverance and Humility with Dr Ross Upshur

Medical nihilism questions medicine’s uncertainty, treatment breakthroughs, and how we make thoughtful health care decisions.

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