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The Doctors Are In with Dr. Sneha Mantri & Dr. Deborah Jenson
October 24, 2019 @ 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm
Topic: Narrative Medicine
What is narrative medicine, and how does it transform clinical and literary spaces? Neurologist and narrative medicine specialist Sneha Mantri dialogues with Deborah Jenson about her training in narrative medicine, how it enters her practice with patients living with Parkinson disease and other movement disorders, and how she envisions the future of the field.
Date: October 24th, 2019
Time: 5:15 – 6:45 PM
Where: Health Humanities Lab – Trent Hall Room 037
Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be provided
Dr. Sneha Mantri’s Bio:
Dr. Sneha Mantri is Assistant Professor of Neurology at Duke University. She attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she also obtained a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine. She has been actively involved in developing narrative medicine and health humanities curricula for medical students and residents, with a focus on improving physician-patient communication and mitigating burnout. She also has a busy clinical practice in the care of people with Parkinson disease and related movement disorders, with a particular interest in how narrative medicine can restore quality of life for those with advanced neurological illnesses. In her free time, she is working on a historical novel about the eugenics movement and its implications for medical practice in the 21st century.
Dr. Deborah Jenson’s Bio:
Deborah Jenson (PhD Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University) is a Professor of romance Studies and Global Health at Duke. She founded and co-directs the Duke Health Humanities Lab. Her work in post-revolutionary French and Haitian literature and culture has always engaged with trauma on a literary level, but after the Haitian earthquake of 2010, she began researching global mental health, cholera and neurodiversity. She co-founded and co-directed the Duke Neurohumanities in Paris Global Education Program and co-leads the FHI/DIBS Neurohumanities Research Group. Her current health humanities work focuses on the Haitian role in the creation of ethnopsychiatry, and French novelists’ representations of their own health experiences in their characters’ bodies. Her recent courses include “Storytelling in Medicine and Health,” and “Flaubert’s Brain: Neurohumanities.”