MFA/EDA Student Explores his Chronic Condition through his Thesis
By Katherine Berko I spoke with MFA/EDA student Jacob Moss, about his thesis titled One Arm Dove Hunt. Over the past year, Jacob travelled to more than 25 states, where[…]
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and What Health Workers Can Learn From It
By Katherine Berko I sat down with HHL co-director, Neil Prose, to discuss his relationship with Leo Tolstoy’s short book, The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Every year Dr. Prose teaches[…]
Global Health Humanities Essays
Humanities Futures at the Franklin Humanities Institute has published a series of Global Health Humanities Essays. You can read them here. This set of essays from the Global Health Humanities[…]
“Health Humanities”: Medicine and the future of Humanities
Anna Savelyeva (T’20), took the HHL’s course Storytelling in Medicine and Health. She’s been kind enough to share her final paper for the class with the HHL. It discusses medicine[…]
Videos from Neurodiversities Symposium Faculty Panel Available
The videos from the Duke Faculty Panel, “Brainhood, Self-Concepts, and the Perils of Neuroconformity” at the Neurodiversities Symposium are now available to watch with this link.
HHL Receives Coverage on Narrative Medicine Mondays
The Duke Chronicle wrote an article about the HHL’s work on narrative medicine, specifically its Narrative Medicine Mondays program. To learn more, visit this page.
Recipient of Marshall Scholarship Holds Close Ties to HHL
By Katherine Berko Julie Uchitel, a senior at Duke majoring in neuroscience and French with a chemistry minor, is one of two Duke students to be awarded a Marshall Scholarship.[…]
Duke Alum Jonathan Hill-Rorie Creates Tools for Improving Student Wellness on Campus
By Katherine Berko Jonathan Hill-Rorie, Duke alum (T ‘15) and masters student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discussed his practicum research conducted with the Health Humanities Lab@FHI.[…]
This Class Puts Stories at the Heart of Medicine and Health
HHL-sponsored course Storytelling in Medicine & Health, co-taught by HHL founder and co-director Deborah Jenson, was beautifully captured in an article by the Duke Global Health Institute. The course aims[…]
HHL Receives Coverage on Disability Work and Events
This week, Duke student Defne Yorgancioglu published an article in the Duke Chronicle titled: “Professors, student groups hope to make discipline of disability studies a campus conversation.” It touched on the[…]