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
High prevalence of depression in medical residents: the sad reality of medical training
Schipper, S 2016-03-03. Evidence Based Medicine doi: 10.1136/ebmed-2016-110381 PMID: 26940711
Bereavement Groups and the Role of Social Support: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice
Hoy, W G 2016-03. 239 pp, Routledge ISBN: 978-1-317-41636-4
The duty of candour: what it means for practising nurses
Griffith, R 2015 Nov 26-Dec 9. British Journal of Nursing (Mark Allen Publishing) 24(21):1102-1103. doi: 10.12968/bjon.2015.24.21.1102 PMID: 26618686
Rethinking research in the medical humanities: a scoping review and narrative synthesis of quantitative outcome studies
Dennhardt, S, Apramian, T, Lingard, L, Torabi, N, Arntfield, S Mar 2016. Medical Education 50(3):285-299. doi: 10.1111/medu.12812 PMID: 26896014
Using Ethical Theories as a Tool for Understanding Cases
Spike, J P, Lunstroth, R 2016. In A Casebook in Interprofessional Ethics pp. 19-29. Springer International Publishing ISBN: 978-3-319-23768-8 978-3-319-23769-5
The Effect of Intra- and Intergenerational Caregiving on Subjective Well-Being – Evidence of a Population Based Longitudinal Study among Older Adults in Germany
Hajek, A, König, H February 9, 2016. PLoS ONE 11(2):e0148916. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148916
Empathy and affect: what can empathied bodies do?
Marshall, G R E, Hooker, C 2016-02-08. Medical Humanities doi: 10.1136/medhum-2015-010818 PMID: 26856355
I and Thou: learning the 'human' side of medicine
Messinger, A, Chin-Yee, B Feb 12, 2016. Medical Humanities doi: 10.1136/medhum-2015-010731 PMID: 26873384
National Economic Development Status May Affect the Association between Central Adiposity and Cognition in Older Adults
Maharani, A, Tampubolon, G 2016. PloS One 11(2):e0148406. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148406 PMID: 26863443
Doctors and Patients: History, Representation, Communication from Antiquity to the Present
Malatesta, M 2015-11-15. 272 pp, Lulu.com ISBN: 978-0-9889865-9-6
Announcements
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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
Narrative Medicine Workshop 2017
Race | Violence | Justice: The Need for Narrative
Columbia University
April 7-9, 2017
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 [email protected]
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
September 15-17, 2016
University of Seville, Spain
Proposals are due by March 15, 2016
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
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 [email protected]
CFP