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
Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization
Conis, E 2014. University of Chicago Press
Exploring the views of people with mental health problems' on the concept of coercion: Towards a broader socio-ethical perspective
Norvoll, R, Pedersen, R May 2016. Social Science & Medicine 156
Stakeholders' Perspectives on Preclinical Testing for Alzheimer's Disease
Arias, J J, Cummings, J, Grant, A R, Ford, P J 2015. The Journal of Clinical Ethics 26(4):297-305. PMID: 26752383
The Power of “My”
Laskowski, R The Journal of the American Medical Association 315(12):.
Disability and Qualitative Inquiry Methods for Rethinking an Ableist World
Berger, R J, Lorenz, L S 2015. Routledge
Seeing illness in art and medicine: a patient and printmaker collaboration
Stahl, D, Stahl, D G March 21, 2016. Medical Humanities
The Use of Narrative as a Treatment Approach for Obesity: A Storied Educational Program Description.
Griffith, M, Griffith, J, Cobb, M, Oge, V 2016. Permanente Journal
Collaboration across Health Research and Medical Care: Healthy Collaboration By Bart Penders, Niki Vermeulen
Penders, B, Vermeulen, N
The Joys of Global Medicine and the Lesson of Relationship
Ventres, W March 21, 2016. The American Journal of Medicine
Caring for Premature Life and Death: The Relational Dynamics of Detachment in a NICU
seo, B K March 22, 2016. Medical Anthropology
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