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‘All my hurts my garden spade can heal’: …

WebBy Sebastian Charles Galbo. Patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital in the late eighteenth century rarely enjoyed the hospital garden as a space of tranquil solitude. Just over the …

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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at …

WebGabriel Redel-Traub interviews Dr. David Oshinsky. Last month, I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Oshinsky, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School …

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Slow Medicine: The Way of Healing

WebFor Sweet, Slow Medicine is an important part of the “Way of Medicine,” the book’s subtitle. Medical care should be multidimensional, not linear, reductive, protocol-driven, or profit …

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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of …

WebBarbara Ehrenreich wants to manage her health and all that is available to address various aspects of it. She makes clear that she will do the managing and has written this book to …

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The Haunting of Hill House: An Exploration in the Fear of …

WebMeher Rakkar is currently interning with the Program for Narrative Medicine and Health Humanities at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix under her mentor …

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What Is Medical Humanities and Why

WebMedical humanities (whatever it is) may assist students in resisting these negative forces by opening their hearts to empathy, respect, genuineness, self-awareness, and reflective …

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Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness

WebSummary. This is an ambitious and far-ranging book, the result of years of thinking, teaching, and working with patients. An internist at the College of Physicians and …

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Prescription for The Future: The Twelve Transformational …

WebThe future of healthcare in the US has long been a subject of debate, with how to pay for it overshadowing other aspects of the topic. In publishing this work, the author, Dr. Ezekiel …

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

WebMany physicians treat dying patients endlessly by training and by law, a norm of maximizing that Gawande finds is often “a fantasy.”. Families, as well, may insist that surely …

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Limits to Medicine--Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation …

WebIllich’s general thesis is that health care can work against the healing people seek from it, that health care can be as pathogenic as disease, and that health care can expropriate …

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The Past, Present, and Future of Medical Television

WebIn 1961, NBC aired the first episode of Dr. Kildare, which featured the young, newly minted, Dr. Kildare, portrayed by actor Richard Chamberlain.The character was originally …

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LitMed: Literature Arts Medicine Database

WebCarol Schilling on American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard “[The book] reveals the story of the first …

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THE GREAT INFLUENZA: A Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

WebJohn Barry’s The Great Influenza is a deep dive into the history of the influenza pandemic of 1918. But it is not simply a deep dive into the purely medical aspects of that history—as …

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Literature Arts & Medicine Magazine – humanities, social sciences, …

WebThe narrative captures a range of emotions following your Covid-19 vaccination. There is a dual sense of relief and ephemerality as you sit in the hospital’s waiting room for the …

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LitMed: Literature Arts Medicine Database

WebUser since: Nov-30-1992. Jack Coulehan is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, and Emeritus Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, …

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Reading Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic in 2021: Does the Gaze …

WebPathological anatomy, the science generating knowledge about the visible alterations on organs and tissues diseases cause, marked an important advance for the clinic upon …

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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and …

WebThe title of this book, “An American Sickness,” refers to the author’s view that the costs people who require health care must bear in the U.S. causes its own sickness. The …

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And the Band Played On

WebSummary. This film rendition of Randy Shilts's documentary book by the same name tells the scientific, political, and human story of the first five years of AIDS in the U.S.--roughly …

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Medical Humanities Conversations in India – Literature Arts

WebRavi Shankar - 06/13/2023. One of the challenges for India and for other developing countries is the fact that much of medical humanities (MH) has come from and is …

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