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
Medical students' creative projects on a third year pediatrics clerkship: a qualitative analysis of patient-centeredness and emotional connection
Shapiro, J, Ortiz, D, Ree, Y Y, Sarwar, M 2016. BMC medical education 16(1):93. doi: 10.1186/s12909-016-0614-4 PMID: 26979108
Honoring Indigenous culture-as-intervention: Development and validity of the Native Wellness Assessment(TM)
Fiedeldey-Van Dijk, C, Rowan, M, Dell, C, Mushquash, C, Hopkins, C, Fornssler, B, Hall, L, Mykota, D, Farag, M, Shea, B Mar 15, 2016. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse doi: 10.1080/15332640.2015.1119774 PMID: 26980712
[The reference site of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging MACVIA-LR (the fight against chronic diseases for an active and healthy aging in Languedoc-Roussillon)]
Groupe d’étude MACVIA-LR, Nov 2015. Presse Médicale (Paris, France: 1983) 44 Suppl 1 doi: 10.1016/j.lpm.2015.07.013 PMID: 26497423
Evaluating the Legitimacy of Contemporary Legal Strategies for Obesity
Morain, S Dec 2015. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 25(4):369-393. doi: 10.1353/ken.2015.0031 PMID: 26775878
Promoting Justice and Autonomy in Public Policies to Reduce the Health Consequences of Obesity
Buchanan, D R Dec 2015. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 25(4):395-417. doi: 10.1353/ken.2015.0023 PMID: 26775879
Lawyer as Storyteller
Elkins, J R Narrative Medicine.
Creating the Modern Physician: The Architecture of American Medical Schools in the Era of Medical Education Reform
Carroll, K L 2016/03/01. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 75(1):48-73. doi: 10.1525/jsah.2016.75.1.48
Can Doctors Maintain Good Character? An Examination of Physician Lives
Fatima, S 2016/03/05. Journal of Medical Humanities doi: 10.1007/s10912-016-9385-5
Mindfulness, Mysticism, and Narrative Medicine
Lewis, B Mar 10, 2016. The Journal of Medical Humanities doi: 10.1007/s10912-016-9387-3 PMID: 26960294
Older people are afraid to complain, says ombudsman
O'Dowd, A 2015. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 351 PMID: 26721859
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