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

Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences

McAdams, D P, Wilson, E O Carroll, J (ed) 2016. Oxford University Press


Transforming Preprofessional Health Education Through Relationship-Centered Care and Narrative Medicine

Weissa, T, Swedeb, M J 4 May 2016. Teaching and Learning in Medicine


The Development of Narrative Reasoning: Student Physical Therapists’ Perceptions of Patient Stories

Nesbit, K C, Randall, K E, Hamilton, T B April 2016. Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice 14(2):.


Social Media and Storytelling in Medicine: Probing Deeper

George, D R, Green, M J May 2016. Academic Medicine 91(5):610-611.


A New Reflexivity: Why Anthropology Matters in Contemporary Health Research and Practice, and How to Make It Matter More

Closser, S, Finley, E P 26 April 2016. American Anthropologist


Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories

Ellis, C, Bochner, A 2016. Routledge


Narratives and Healing: Implications for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Dein, S Anthropol 4(1):162.


Integrating narrative medicine into clinical care

Balmer, D, Gill, A, Nuila, R May 2016. Medical Education 50(5):581-582.


Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives

Gay, K In Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives pp. 171-186. Springer


Ways of Doing: Restorative Practices, Governmentality and Provider Conduct in Post-Apartheid Healthcare

Harrisa, B, Eylesa, J, Goudgea, J 6 April 2016. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness


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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