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Explore posts featuring supplemental videos that illuminate medical humanities through storytelling, art, culture, empathy, and reflection.
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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.
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
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.
When AIDS Activism Went Inside a Hospital: Ward 5B at San Francisco General
Documentary recounts San Francisco’s Ward 5B, where nurses and activists humanized AIDS care amid fear.
Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
A powerful history of the Attica prison uprising exposing injustice, political power, and America’s carceral legacy.
Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever by Kathleen Sharp
A gripping account of pharmaceutical whistleblowing, corporate misconduct, and the deadly consequences of profit-driven medicine.
Stories of Illness, Stories of Loss
An essay linking Holocaust memory books to the art of medical history-taking and illness narratives.
Embodiment as Performance: Anne Gridley’s Watch Me Walk
Anne Gridley transforms walking into defiant performance, confronting disability, discomfort, and rare disease awareness head-on.
4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane’s final play fractures theatrical form to embody depression, psychosis, and the limits of language.
Cinema Without Barriers: Disability, Creativity, and Comfort Intersect at RestFest
RestFest reimagines film festivals through disabled-led creativity, radical access, and care-centered viewing beyond ableist norms.
Flushing the Script: Madness, Medication, and Patriarchy in The Housemaid
A thriller about psychopharmaceuticals becomes a feminist meditation on madness, coercion, and resistance within patriarchal domestic spaces.
Achieving a Good Death: A Practical Guide to the End of Life by Chris Palmer
A candid, compassionate review explores how planning, autonomy, and honest conversations can transform dying into dignity.