Cultivating empathy u0026amp; critical thinking in health, culture u0026amp; the arts
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Summer 2026 Biblioscopy
New books highlighting illness poetry, the toll on compassion extracted during medical training, and the emotional burden of illness on family members
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
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.
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves by Stephen O’Connor
Love, Duty and Psychoanalysis in Third Reich Berlin
Factors Underlying Mental Orders Depicted in Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Using Pink Floyd’s The Wall, this episode explores psychiatric diagnosis through music, film, trauma, and medical education.
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 rhetoric in our culture suggests.
Summer 2026 Biblioscopy
New books highlighting illness poetry, the toll on compassion extracted during medical training, and the emotional burden of illness on family members
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
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.
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves by Stephen O’Connor
Love, Duty and Psychoanalysis in Third Reich Berlin
Factors Underlying Mental Orders Depicted in Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Using Pink Floyd’s The Wall, this episode explores psychiatric diagnosis through music, film, trauma, and medical education.
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 rhetoric in our culture suggests.
Summer 2026 Biblioscopy
New books highlighting illness poetry, the toll on compassion extracted during medical training, and the emotional burden of illness on family members
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
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.
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves by Stephen O’Connor
Love, Duty and Psychoanalysis in Third Reich Berlin
Factors Underlying Mental Orders Depicted in Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Using Pink Floyd’s The Wall, this episode explores psychiatric diagnosis through music, film, trauma, and medical education.
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 rhetoric in our culture suggests.
How The Doctor Rose From Grave Robber To Great Man
Arrowsmith (1925) marks a dramatic shift in the American imagination from viewing scientific doctors as monsters to viewing them as heroes.
Isles-Second Fragment
A watchful partner, a curse, a part of everything all at once, in sickness and in health.
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
A memoir traces grief, identity, and love through food, memory, and cultural inheritance.
Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
A narrative exploring tuberculosis through history, inequality, medical progress, and global injustice.
Children Who Remember Former Lives
An exploration of children reporting past-life memories, examining evidence, skepticism, and philosophical implications for consciousness and identity.
The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
A tense noir thriller where a young doctor becomes the prime suspect in a mysterious desert murder.
