Narrative & Graphic Medicine
Events
- PathosGraphics“Graphic medicine and literary pathographies: The aesthetics and politics of illness narratives in contemporary comics and literature” (PathoGraphics) analyzes English and German works from an inter-medial and cross-cultural perspective.
- 2019 March - Chicago. International Health Humanities MeetingThe Environments of the Health Humanities: Inquiry and Practice
- 2019 March. Workshop - Burnout in Healthcare: The Need for Narrative March 8-10 2019 Columbia University This Basic Workshop provides an intensive introductory experience to the methods and skills of Narrative Medicine, with a special focus on the ways narrative medicine techniques can approach the issues of burnout and moral injury in healthcare, and in the workplace in general.
Collections
- LITMED: Literature, Arts, Medicine Database The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for scholars, educators, students, patients, and others interested in medical humanities. It was created by faculty of the New York University School of Medicine in 1993. The annotations are written by an invited editorial board of scholars from all over North America.
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- Pulse - Voices from the heart of medicine. Sharing personal experiences of giving and receiving health careSubscribe to the weekly email: a 1st-person story or poem, together with a visual image or haiku, about health care.
*Publishing personal accounts of illness and healing
* fostering the humanistic practice of medicine
*encouraging health care advocacy. - Expressions of Clinician Well-Being: An Art ExhibitionThe National Academy of Medicine (NAM), a nonprofit research organization in Washington, DC, called on artists of all skills and abilities to express what clinician burnout and clinician resilience/well-being looks, sounds, and feels like to them. The purpose of Expressions of Clinician Well-Being is to promote greater awareness and understanding of barriers to clinician well-being—and solutions that promise a brighter future.
- Life of BreathBlog, Podcasts, News, Events
Life of Breath is a five year (2015-20) research project funded by the Wellcome Trust. It is led jointly by Prof Jane Macnaughton (Durham University) and Prof Havi Carel (University of Bristol). The Life of Breath team includes researchers from a number of different subjects including medicine, philosophy, anthropology, history, arts and literature. The group also works with the British Lung Foundation, people affected by lung disease, healthcare professionals and people who use their breath in interesting ways (e.g. musicians). - The Nocturnist
The Nocturnists is a medical storytelling live show and podcast where healthcare workers are free to pause and examine their inner landscapes. Since 2016, we’ve produced over a dozen live performances in the Bay Area and New York City, and 3 seasons of our podcast, featuring live stories followed by a conversation between me and the storyteller. Our work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, and the Bay Area Science Festival.
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020, The Nocturnists sought to give voice to the experience of Black healthcare workers. We partnered with Dr. Ashley McMullen and Dr. Kimberly Manning to produce another audio diary series called “Black Voices in Healthcare,” which highlights stories of Black pain, Black joy, and Black excellence in medicine.
Exhibits
Books
Journals
The Permanente Journal
ISSN: 1552-5767
The Permanente Journal is a peer-reviewed journal of medical science, social science in medicine, and medical humanities. The Permanente Press publishes The Permanente Journal and books related to Kaiser Permanente and health care to advance knowledge in scientific research, clinical medicine, and innovative health care delivery.- LeafletISSN: 2150-5233
The Permanente Press, in conjunction with The Permanente Journal presents this medical literary and arts e-journal, leaflet -- to open greater opportunity to share the creative visual and written works of physicians and nurses.
Articles
- What to do with stories The sciences of narrative medicineCharon, R. (2007). What to do with stories: The sciences of narrative medicine. Canadian Family Physician, 53(8), 1265–1267.
PMCID: PMC1949238 - Narrative Medicine - A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and TrustCharon R. Narrative Medicine A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust. JAMA. 2001;286(15):1897–1902. doi:10.1001/jama.286.15.1897
- Narrative Medicine: Every Patient Has a StoryAAMCNews March 28, 2017
- Science and art find common ground: the importance of storytellingSara ElShafie, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, discusses what can happen when scientists partner with professional storytellers.
PLOS (The Public Library of Science) is a non profit publisher and advocacy organization on a mission to lead a transformation in research communication.