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
Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature
DeFalco, A 2016. University of Toronto Press
Generating a Social Movement Online Community through an Online Discourse: The Case of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Lian, O S, Grue, J 8 April 2016. Journal of Medical Humanities
Soundscapes of Well-being in Popular Music
Kingsbury, P, Kearns, R Andrews, G J (ed) 2014. Routledge
Qualitative Research on Illness, Well-being, and Health: Contemporary Indian Perspectives
Dalal, A K Priya, K R (ed) 2015. Routledge
‘Don't Play the Butter Notes’: Jazz in Medical Education
Bradner, M, Harper, D V, Ryan, M H, Vanderbilt, A A 2016. Medical Education Online
Should we integrate the humanities into the delivery of geriatric medicine? A survey of training programme directors
Wardle, K, Parikh, R 2016. Age & Ageing 45 (suppl 1)(i14):.
Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care
Hojat, M 2016. Springer
The Importance Of Integrating Narrative Into Health Care Decision Making
Dohan, D, Garrett, S B, Rendle, K A, Halley, M, Abramson, C April 2016. Health Affairs 35(4):720-725.
Patients as story-tellers of healthcare journeys
Lamprell, K, Braithwaite, J 4 April 2016. Medical Humanities
Social Sensations of Symptoms: Embodied Socialities of HIV and Trauma in Uganda
Meinert, L, Whyte, S R Anthropology in Action, 2016 2016
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