Nurse-Poet-Writer Cortney Davis Responds To Thomas Long’s Blog On Nurse Writers
Commentary by Cortney Davis, MA, APRN, Nurse practitioner, Sacred Heart University Health Services, Fairfield, Connecticut Thank you to Dr. Thomas Long for his excellent blog entry and for his...
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Breast Milk As Medicine And Virus: Modern Maternity And HIV/AIDS
Commentary by Bernice L. Hausman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of English; coordinator of the undergraduate minor in Medicine and Society, Virginia Tech. Biologically speaking, breastfeeding has...
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Fostering Interdisciplinary Community: A Humanities Perspective
Commentary by Jessica Howell, Ph.D., Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Humanities and Health, King's College London Described as a "free destination for the incurably curious", the...
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The "Parallel 'Parallel Chart'"
Commentary by Hedy S. Wald, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI May, 2006. We treated our Doctoring small group to a...
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Physicians' Storytelling via Webinar
Commentary by Katherine D. Ellington, Class of 2011, St. George’s University School of Medicine; Creator, Producer and Host, AMSA National Book Discussion Webinars Over the last year, I've had the...
View ArticleEnglish Departments and Healthcare
Commentary by Bernice L. Hausman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of English; coordinator of the undergraduate minor in Medicine and Society, Virginia Tech. In answer to a listserv question about how...
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Walk a Mile in My Moccasins
Commentary by Amy Ellwood, MSW, LCSW; Professor of Family Medicine & Psychiatry, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, Nevada Communicating Through Story Storytelling has been around...
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Interdisciplinary Arts Project in a Family Medicine Residency Training Program
Commentary by Maureen Rappaport MD, FCCFP, Assistant Professor of Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital Center, and McGill University, Montreal, Canada I am trained as a family physician but one third of my...
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Four Years of Medical Humanities in Nepal: What Worked and What Did Not
Commentary by P. Ravi Shankar, M.D. and Rano Mal Piryani, M.D., Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal In previous articles in the Literature, Arts, and Medicine blog...
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Saying Goodbye
After more than three years of blog postings, we are no longer adding posts. Our original aim was to bring many medical humanities voices, perspectives, and projects to the attention of those who are...
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Medical Humanities - Initiating the Journey at Xavier University School of...
Dr P. Ravi Shankar has been facilitating medical humanities sessions for over eight years, first in Nepal and currently in Aruba in the Dutch Caribbean. He has a keen interest in and has written...
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Saying Goodbye
EDITOR’S NOTE: Since this post first appeared we have resumed updating the blog. After more than three years of blog postings, we are no longer adding posts. Our original aim was to bring many medical...
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Medical Humanities – Initiating the Journey at Xavier University School of...
Dr P. Ravi Shankar has been facilitating medical humanities sessions for over eight years, first in Nepal and currently in Aruba in the Dutch Caribbean. He has a keen interest in and has written...
View ArticleReading Lolita in Residency
Throughout history, reading books has often been viewed with deep suspicion by figures in authority. The Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola collected and publically burned thousands of objects...
View ArticleUsing Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) to Enhance Interprofessional Education
“I wish your husband came to me 5 years earlier.” That’s what the Whipple surgeon said to me after my husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. From 2010-2016 my husband was in and out of the...
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