Theme: Graphic Medicine. What makes a good physician? A person who properly diagnoses and then cures their patients? What if we told you that there’s a third vital characteristic of good physicians – physicians who listen to – and attempt to understand – their patients’ stories. Education philosopher Paulo Freire noted back in 1963, that: “A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationshipreveals its fundamentally narrative character.
Join us for a narrative medicine workshop led by Dr. Sneha Mantri, a neurologist trained in movement disorders and narrative medicine. Narrative medicine is an approach to medical humanities that centers the importance of storytelling in the clinical encounter. The workshop will start with an overview of the foundational principles of narrative medicine—attention, representation, and[...]
Marina Tsaplina is a puppeteer and performing artist based in Brooklyn, NY whose work looks at the unique capacities of puppetry-bodies/objects to reveal embodiment, imagination, and the historic and poetic body in illness, (dis)ability and healing. She is the Health Humanities Lab artist-in-residence this semester and is artist lead of Reimagining Medicine, a medical humanities[...]
Writing clinician and integrative health coach John Evans believes that writing isn’t only for those who consider themselves writers. He believes that writing can be a transformative tool for anyone who wants to sit down with a pen and paper, direct awareness inward, and open up to greater self-awareness, growth, and healing. At this auspicious[...]
What makes a good physician? A person who properly diagnoses and then cures their patients? What if we told you that there’s a third vital characteristic of good physicians – physicians who listen to – and attempt to understand – their patients’ stories.
Illness Revelations and the Bodies of History+Medicine+Us is a new Health Humanities Lab and Theater Studies-funded performance project that investigates the 'eugenics impulse' in each of us. The project also explores the nature of care, oppression, dis/ability and healing. Historic archive research, Chronic Commons community workshops, and embodied artistic inquiry will culminate in a first[...]
Join us for a narrative medicine workshop led by Dr. Sneha Mantri, a neurologist trained in movement disorders and narrative medicine. Narrative medicine is an approach to medical humanities that centers the importance of storytelling in the clinical encounter. The workshop will start with an overview of the foundational principles of narrative medicine—attention, representation, and[...]
The “Doctors Are In” series brings together a humanities scholar and a health care provider to engage in conversation on mutual interests, different professional practices and frames for similar concerns. This iteration of the series will feature Dr. Raymond Barfield and Dr. Verlyn Klinkenborg. Join us for a light reception beginning at 5pm to be[...]
Eugenics was a popular American movement that believed that only certain bodies are worthy. Public health policies of the late 19th and 20th century pulsed with a "eugenics impulse" that held certain lives and bodies above others. Medical science was used to manage the reproductive, physical, and relational freedoms of the US population. This impulse remains.[...]
Synesthesia is a neuropsychological condition that causes the stimulation of one sensory modality to evoke a sensation in another sensory modality. One of the most common forms involves the perception of color in response to achromatic printed letters; for example, the black letter “A” might be perceived in the reader’s mind as a red “A.”[...]