Medical Humanities Summer Institute

This workshop, hosted by Kings College London in June 2016, provided an opportunity for robust conversation about issues in medical humanities research and in the development of degree programs (graduate and undergraduate).

Recent Research

Whole Genome Sequencing and Newborn Screening

Botkin, J R, Rothwell, E 2016-3-1. Current genetic medicine reports 4(1):1-6. doi: 10.1007/s40142-016-0084-3 PMID: 27134803 PMCID: PMC4847737


An anthropological approach to teach and evaluate cultural competence in medical students - the application of mini-ethnography in medical history taking

Hsieh, J, Hsu, M, Wang, Y 2016/09/22. Medical Education Online 21(0):. doi: 10.3402/meo.v21.32561


The New Biologies Epigenetics, the Microbiome and Immunities

Blackman, L 2016-09-22. Body & Society doi: 10.1177/1357034X16662325


Healing Without Waging War: Beyond Military Metaphors in Medicine and HIV Cure Research

Nie, J, Gilbertson, A, Roubaix, M d, Staunton, C, Niekerk, A v, Tucker, J D, Rennie, S October 2, 2016. The American Journal of Bioethics 16(10):3-11. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2016.1214305 PMID: 27653388


Montgomery on informed consent: an inexpert decision?

Montgomery, J, Montgomery, E Feb 2016. Journal of Medical Ethics 42(2):89-94. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2015-102862 PMID: 26811487


The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians' Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm

Bester, J, Cole, C M, Kodish, E 2016. AMA journal of ethics 18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609 PMID: 27669132


Communication Skills Training for Physicians Improves Patient Satisfaction

Boissy, A, Windover, A K, Bokar, D, Karafa, M, Neuendorf, K, Frankel, R M, Merlino, J, Rothberg, M B 7/2016. Journal of General Internal Medicine 31(7):755-761. doi: 10.1007/s11606-016-3597-2


Opening our eyes to a critical approach to medicine: The humanities in medical education

Liao, L September 27, 2016. Medical Teacher 0(0):1-2. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2016.1231915 PMID: 27670379


Authentic Bodies, Authentic Selves

Chandler, A 2016. In Self-Injury, Medicine and Society pp. 187-206. Palgrave Macmillan UK ISBN: 978-1-137-40527-2 978-1-137-40528-9


A fuller picture: evaluating an art therapy programme in a multidisciplinary mental health service

Brady, C, Moss, H, Kelly, B D 2016-09-26. Medical Humanities doi: 10.1136/medhum-2016-011040 PMID: 27670973


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Announcements

Send event listings to  heymancenter@columbia.edu

2017 Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium

Deadline extended to Friday, July 14, 2017. See details here.


Herschel Garfein in conversation

Garfein will be talking about his work as librettist on "Alzheimer's Stories” (with the composer Robert S. Cohen) to the Interprofessional Seminar on Aging.  It’s a choral work about Alzheimer’s patients, based on personal stories posted on the website of the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, which commissioned the work.

April 18, 2017 from 5:30-7 pm
Columbia University

Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168th Street
11th Floor conference room-(take the elevator on the left 1 floor up and conference room is on the right)


Screening and Talk: Extremis

An Oscar-nominated documentary by Dan Krauss exploring end-of-life decision-making in the ICU

WEDNESDAY, April 5th, 2017 | 5-7 pm

LOCATION: FACULTY CLUB
630 W. 168th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY


Malawi Medical Humanities Network

Inaugural Conference

University of Malawi, Aug. 25-27, 2017

Proposals due April 21

Details here!


Narrative Medicine Workshop 2017

Race | Violence | Justice: The Need for Narrative

Columbia University

April 7-9, 2017

Registration now open


Garret FitzGerald, “Precision Medicine, Translational Research and Therapeutics”

Monday, December 5, 2016
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center
Second Floor
104 Haven Avenue
New York, NY 10032


Symposium: Racism and Public Health

Hosted by Columbia's Science, Technology, and Society Discussion Series .


CFP: Medicine and Mystery

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association just released a CFP for their June 2017 conference, Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Fiction in Victorian Science .


Upcoming talk for those in the NYC area…

 

DU Peng, Renmin University of China

“Population Aging and Elderly Care in China and East Asia.”

November 18th, 12p

ARB Room 440, 722 W. 168th Street

Details available at:  aging.columbia.edu


CHCI MedHum
2017 Summer Institute 
Call for Proposals Announced

Click this link for more details
Proposals due 10/15/16


Job: Rutgers University Postdoctoral Associate (2 positions)

Applications due by January 9, 2017


Panel: Aging: Things That Matter

September 20, 2016
NYU (433 First Avenue, 2nd Floor)


2016 Penn State Medical Humanities Scholars Colloquium

August 28-September 3, 2016
Penn State College of Medicine
Applications due by June 1, 2016. Email documents to kienlecenter@hmc.psu.edu


Summer Course “Medical Humanities - Italian Perspectives”

September 11-16, 2016
Fondazione Lanza, via Dante, 55 - Padova (Italy)
Applications due by July 20, 2016. Payment due by August 10, 2016


Arts and Humanities for Improving Social Inclusion, Education and Health: Creative practice and mutuality 5th International Health Humanities Conference

September 15-17, 2016
University of Seville, Spain
Proposals are due by March 15, 2016


ASBH 18th Annual Meeting

October 6-9, 2016
Washington, D.C.
Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill
Proposals are due by March 4, 2016


2016 a2ru National Conference: ArtsRx: Creative Venture, Wellbeing and the New Humanities

November 3-5, 2016
University of Colorado, Denver
Proposals are due by May 20, 2016


MLA 2017

January 5-8, 2017
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Proposals for Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care Session are due by March 15, 2016. Email 300 word abstracts and one page CV to gardenr@upstate.edu
CFP