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.
Edvard Munch transformed personal family tragedies into haunting paintings that reveal illness, grief, isolation, and enduring emotional suffering.
This month we focus on the nexus of and interface between medicine and the humanities.
John Barry’s The Great Influenza vividly recounts the 1918 pandemic’s medical, social, and political upheavals with novelistic precision.
A powerful history of the Attica prison uprising exposing injustice, political power, and America’s carceral legacy.
A narrative exploring tuberculosis through history, inequality, medical progress, and global injustice.
This essay examines how policy, culture, and power quietly claim women’s bodies worldwide.
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 ➔
Love, Duty and Psychoanalysis in Third Reich Berlin
Arrowsmith (1925) marks a dramatic shift in the American imagination from viewing scientific doctors as monsters to viewing them as…
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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