About Medhum
Our Mission
Our mission is to explore the human condition as expressed through medicine, literature, and the arts. Our site is an educational resource which cultivates critical thinking and empathy in a curated forum of reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces.
MedHum: Med stands for Medicine and Media; Hum for Human and the Humanities.
What We Do
There is a nearly insatiable appetite for reading about medicine – the causes and effects of disease and the nature of medical discovery, for example. With all the articles, essays, books, podcasts, movies, is there really a need for MedHum, another website devoted to publishing contributions poised at the interface between medicine and the humanities? We think so and hope you will agree.
MedHum addresses issues that impact people, whether through illness, health, societal upheavals, and trauma. We are committed to the idea that literature and the arts can enhance our lives and provide new perspectives on what it is to be human. We filter our content through a wide-angle lens to offer a multiplicity of views from artists, writers, health professionals, journalists and critics. MedHum includes reviews of and essays on new and classic works of literature, interviews with authors and artists, and opinion pieces on global health and health disparities.
In addition, MedHum now features select content from the original NYU Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database (LitMed), founded by Felice Aull and Martin Nachbar at the NYU School of Medicine in 1994. This added content includes annotations of classic medical humanities works of literature and the visual and performing arts. Many former editors of the Database are now contributors to MedHum.org .
We take a macro and micro view of the world, and we curate it.
Changing Time in Medicine
Clinical medicine in America is undergoing a transformation; we see a fracture in the traditional relationships between doctors, nurses and the patients in their care. New developments include alteration of the genome, the emergence of new, potentially dangerous pathogens, and the use of AI in medicine, which may give rise to anxiety among people, especially those who have faced roadblocks in accessing healthcare. This new technological era creates profound questions regarding our individual impulses, our societal obligations, and above all our connection to one another.
MedHum is a launchpad to discuss these complex issues in a humane and open space and to foster connection between our audience and our contributors.
Medhum Media kit
Please download our media kit and help us spread the word! We’d be grateful if you could share it with your community or post it on your bulletin board. Your support in amplifying our message truly makes a difference, and we appreciate your help in reaching more people.
Every effort counts, and together, we can make a bigger impact.
Support Medhum
MedHum.org is proud to be a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, making your donations fully tax-deductible as allowed by law. By supporting us, you help amplify vital voices and expand our impact, fostering a deeper understanding of healthcare through the lens of literature and the arts.
Thank you for your generous support of MedHum!
Contact US
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