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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.
Chasing a Disease that was Chasing Him: The Plague Years by Dr. Ross Slotten
A physician’s memoir tracing compassion, loss, resilience, and survival through the devastating early decades of the AIDS epidemic.
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.
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.
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.
A Plague on Their House
How O’Farrell’s Hamnet Traces Plague’s Journey From Fleas to Family, Blending Science, History, Storytelling with Empathy
Learning Empathy through Chekhov
A psychiatrist-playwright shows how adapting classic drama for medical students cultivates empathy and reflective care practice.
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.
Pushback: Mary Fissell looks back at 2500 years of abortion history
A sweeping new history examines how societies across millennia have regulated, resisted, and reshaped access to abortion.
The Great Influenza by John Barry
John Barry’s The Great Influenza vividly recounts the 1918 pandemic’s medical, social, and political upheavals with novelistic precision.
Vaccination in Danger
Vaccine pioneer Stanley Plotkin reflects on the growing opposition to vaccination despite its proven, lifesaving impact worldwide.
Case History by Dannie Abse
This poem confronts prejudice, hate, and moral conflict, depicting a doctor treating a bigoted patient with professional duty despite deep offense.
Imagining Phantom Limb Pain
The “fragmentary novel” Flights, offers literary descriptions of phantom limb pain by imagining what a known amputee from the past may have gone through.
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.
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