A Lens on Human Experience
Cultivating empathy u0026amp; critical thinking in health, culture u0026amp; the arts
In Focus: Infectious Disese ➔
As Winter approaches we revisit three works with a focus on u003cstrongu003einfectious diseaseu003c/strongu003e, its human cost as well as its prevention.
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Summer 2026 Biblioscopy
New books highlighting illness poetry, the toll on compassion extracted during medical training, and the emotional burden of illness on family members
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
Children’s literature offers a lens into public perception and experience of childhood infectious diseases as we face a resurgence of these same illnesses today.
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We Want So Much to Be Ourselves by Stephen O’Connor
Love, Duty and Psychoanalysis in Third Reich Berlin
Factors Underlying Mental Orders Depicted in Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Using Pink Floyd’s The Wall, this episode explores psychiatric diagnosis through music, film, trauma, and medical education.