Topic: healing
Essays, reviews, and reflections exploring healing through medicine, storytelling, compassion, resilience, grief, and human connection.
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We Year: A Love Letter to the Crip Community
An interview with film director Sop about art and chronic illness
Meet the Medhum Team: Dr. Tony Miksanek
Writer, runner, and medical humanities advocate explores storytelling, trust, vulnerability, and the human side of care.
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.
Meet the MedHum Team: Dr. Jacalyn Duffin
David Hsu sits down with physician and historian Dr. Jacalyn Duffin to catch up about life, medical humanities and MedHum.
The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo transforms personal trauma and chronic pain into powerful visual meditations on body, identity, and survival.
Antonia Saw the Oryx First by Maria Thomas
A moving exploration of healing across cultures, faiths, and traditions, where Western medicine meets indigenous wisdom in profound, transformative encounters.
The Word Is an Instrument of Healing
Language, ritual, and narrative serve as powerful healing tools, with context, beliefs, and social support enhancing health outcomes.
Mandatory Evacuation Zone by Felice Aull
This collection traces memory, language, grief, and healing through sixty-three finely crafted poems that illuminate loss and resilience.
Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
Blending memoir and criticism, Sarah Chihaya’s Bibliophobia explores depression, identity, and the perilous yet healing power of books.
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
A lyrical World War I tale blending medicine, love, and ethics, The Winter Soldier immerses readers in history and humanity.
Cold Eye, Warm Heart: Medicine and Anton Chekhov
A moving portrait of Anton Chekhov, whose dual life as physician and writer reveals the deep interplay between healing and storytelling.
The Happiest Couple
A moving portrait of resilience, aging, and love through the remarkable immigrant journey of the happiest couple this doctor has met.
Regeneration by Pat Barker
A powerful antiwar novel exploring trauma, identity, and the psychological toll of combat on soldiers and those who treat them.
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
A gripping novel of hardship and resilience, this story explores addiction, poverty, and personal triumph in a forgotten rural America.
Did You Ever Have a Family? by Bill Clegg
A deeply moving novel exploring grief, guilt, and the transformative power of forgiveness through interwoven voices and emotional clarity.
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