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Heal Me: Childhood Trauma in The Who’s Tommy with Dr. Anthony Tobia
The Who’s Tommy is used to explore psychiatric trauma, with its iconic songs helping teach mental health concepts to students and professionals.
“I’m Filled with Desire”: Eros & Illness with David B. Morris
Eros fuels desires in illness, offering healing through art, literature, and companionship—David B. Morris reveals its transformative power for patients seeking meaning.
What Desire Will Shape a World We’re Left?: Poet Micheal O’Siadhail on Covid
Four years post-pandemic, we must reflect not only on technocratic solutions but on deeper desires, using poetry to express collective and personal experiences.
AIDS in the Comics: The Graphic Memoir Taking Turns with MK Czerwiec
Exploring the HIV/AIDS crisis through graphic memoir, we discover how the comic medium uniquely conveys emotional, medical, and human aspects that traditional texts often miss.
Painting with Empathy: The Expressionist Art of Edvard Munch with Curator Øystein Ustvedt
Edvard Munch’s emotional portrayal of illness and suffering offers profound insights for health professionals and their education.
The Dose Makes the Poison: Two Novels, Two Poisons, Two Emergency Medicine Physicians
Exploring self-poisoning through literature and medicine: vivid depictions in Belladonna and Madame Bovary meet biomedical insights, offering valuable lessons for health care professionals and students
How Terrible it Was: Three Takes on the AIDS Crisis with Dr. Ross Slotten
A physician reflects on the AIDS crisis, sharing personal and professional experiences from the early years of the epidemic.
Sweet Sand of Time: James Dickey’s poem Diabetes with Dr. Jack Coulehan
Poetry enriches the understanding of type 2 diabetes, bridging the gap between medical experience and patient emotions in healthcare.