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Explore posts featuring supplemental videos that illuminate medical humanities through storytelling, art, culture, empathy, and reflection.
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Disability as a Plot Device in Tuner
How Tuner transforms disability into a cinematic superpower
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
A memoir traces grief, identity, and love through food, memory, and cultural inheritance.
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
A neurosurgeon reflects on triumphs, failures, mortality, and compassion through decades of brain surgery.
Interview with John O’Connor: Magic Mushrooms and the Search for Meaning
A conversation with the author about today’s psychedelic renaissance
The Waiting Room by George Tooker
George Tooker’s haunting painting reveals anonymity, isolation, and powerlessness within institutional waiting spaces.
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s haunting tale exposes patriarchal medicine, isolation, and psychological collapse through symbolism.
Obsession and “The Yellow Wallpaper”
The film highlights the peril of love that demands possession.
Conundrum by Jan Morris
An exploration of gender identity, transformation, courage, and the lifelong search for authentic selfhood.
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Lucy Grealy links childhood cancer, disfigurement, and the complex, fragile search for identity in her poignant memoir.
See you on the Other Side by Matthew Wong
A solitary figure confronts distance and memory in a haunting landscape of home, absence, and emotional isolation themes
The Beginnings of American Medicine: Pennsylvania Hospital Museum
A fascinating journey through Philadelphia’s historic Pennsylvania Hospital Museum reveals the origins of American medicine today.
Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell
A confessional masterpiece depicting mental isolation through striking animal imagery and defiant, indomitable spirit.
Call Me by Your Name
A tender summer in 1980s Italy reveals desire, identity, and the unforgettable ache of first love.
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A gripping account of the Woburn leukemia cluster and its lasting impact on environmental health, law, and public trust.
The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo transforms personal trauma and chronic pain into powerful visual meditations on body, identity, and survival.
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.