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Children Who Remember Former Lives
An exploration of children reporting past-life memories, examining evidence, skepticism, and philosophical implications for consciousness and identity.
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
A thoughtful conversation on aging, mortality, and balancing quality of life with survival in care decisions
The Only Doctor Hawthorne Would See
A physician-poet uses storytelling and moral conviction to challenge deadly medical ignorance and earn Hawthorne’s trust.
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.
Craftivism is Activism
From AIDS quilts to protest knitting, craftivism transforms domestic creativity into engaging tools for social activism.
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…
A gripping account of pharmaceutical whistleblowing, corporate misconduct, and the deadly consequences of profit-driven medicine.
The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
A tense noir thriller where a young doctor becomes the prime suspect in a mysterious desert murder.
Eat Your Ice Cream
A pragmatic guide to longevity that favors balance, evidence, and meaningful human connection.
Meet the MedHum Team: Dr. Felice Aull
Forging links between Medicine and the Arts: A Conversation with Dr. Felice Aull
Stories of Illness, Stories of Loss
An essay linking Holocaust memory books to the art of medical history-taking and illness narratives.
Biblioscopy: A Glimpse of New and Upcoming Books
New books probe illness, injury, empathy, burnout, and medicine’s fragile yet enduring human limits.
I Watched You Disappear by Anya Krugovoy Silver
A poetry collection exploring illness, loss, memory, and hope through intimate reflections on life and family.
From Nothing by Anya Krugovoy Silver
Anya Krugovoy Silver’s From Nothing transforms personal illness into transcendent, hopeful poetry.
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.
The Anatomist by Frederico Andahazi
Historical novel exploring 16th‑century anatomist Mateo Colombo’s controversial discovery of the clitoris.
Meet the MedHum Team: Jack Coulehan
Poet-physician Jack Coulehan reflects on medical humanities, technology’s impact, and poetry’s role in healing in this thoughtful interview.
Margo Weishar: The Excellent Doctor Blackwell
Margo Weishar explores Elizabeth Blackwell’s hidden life, ambition, and sacrifice ahead of a public reading.
I’m Sick, Therefore I Am: Illness as Normality in Nervous System with Author Lina Meruane
A conversation exploring illness as everyday reality, where sickness, care, and family life intertwine in an unsettling literary narrative.
4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane’s final play fractures theatrical form to embody depression, psychosis, and the limits of language.
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