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[...]

An Arts Performance on Dementia, “Vamping,” by Kali Quinn, followed by panel presentations and discussion with U. of Toronto  Medical Anthropologist Janelle Taylor, Jessica Ruhle (Director of Education and Public Programs at the Nasher, including “Reflections: The Nasher Museum’s Alzheimer’s Program), Lisa Gwyther (LCSW) , and the carer of a patient with dementia. The event will be[...]

What is the connection between Aristotle and Blade Runner? What do belated diagnoses of ADHD have to do with unexpected genetic test results? Danielle Spencer proposes the term metagnosis to describe the experience of learning of a longstanding undetected condition. In contrast to diagnosis, metagnosis effects a shift in the terms of knowledge, productively unsettling our understanding of medical knowledge, narrative, and identity. Just[...]