Health Humanities Journals
● Finding Purpose: Honing the Practice of Making Meaning in Medicine- a student-run publication This issue of The Permanente Journal is about poetry and suit it to foster healthcare-related conversation● Consider submitting your work to UNC Health Humanities Journal, a student-run publication
● The Polyphony: Conversations Across the Medical Humanities:
○ Publishes mostly prose pieces reflecting on art, philosophy, and medicine
● The Examined Life Journal: University of Iowa College of Medicine:
● Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (associated with Columbia's Narrative Medicine program)
○ Publishes mostly art, short stories, and poetry related to health
● Medical Humanities a BMJ journal
○ Publishes a mix of art, reflective narratives, and essays on bioethics
● JAMA
○ Has a humanities section that publishes essays, personal narratives, and poetry
○ Publishes qualitative studies (e.g., ethnographies, oral histories, open-ended interviews, etc.) related to health and medicine
○ Publishes a mix of qualitative and quantitative research on health communication. The "Defining Moments" section includes essays that share personal narratives contextualized within research and theory
○ A new journal associated with the Arnold P. Gold Foundation which publishes: "poetry, photography, visual art, works of reflection, or fictional/non-fictional prose in order to raise awareness of the importance of humanism while creating solidarity amongst clinical and nonclinical members of the medical community."
● Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics
○ “Provides a forum for exploring current issues in bioethics through the publication and analysis of personal stories, qualitative and mixed-methods research articles, and case studies.”
○ Goals: To provide students from all of the colleges within USF Health with a publication to read and contribute to, publish online articles continuously across all domains, and release a journal-styled PDF highlighting the semester's submissions once per academic year
Additional Helpful Resources
● Connections in Narrative Medicine
○ Free, synchronous virtual narrative medicine sessions are held weekly, facilitated by Columbia University faculty & alums
● NYU's Literature, arts, and medicine database
○ Catalogs different artistic pieces that have been used in narrative medicine sessions
○ A curated list of artistic works with reflective essays
○ Biweekly Twitter chats about the health humanities with a resource library of discussion guides
○ They also have a good health humanities curricular toolkit
● Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities has a good mailing list that shares events and research related to health humanities
● The American Association of Medical Colleges has a two-part guide for integrating arts and humanities into medical education with many resources for educators
- Poor Teeth
- Interview with Dr. Tess Jones by Dr. Nathan Carlin on his Work and Life Podcast
Conferences
● Arthur P. Gold Foundation Humanism & Healing
● Western Michigan University’s Annual Medical Humanities conference
● International Health Humanities Consortium Conference
● International Conference on Communication in Healthcare
Organizations
● The Health Humanities Consortium
● American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
● The Academy of Communication in Healthcare
Examples of Interactive, Multimedia Exhibits Sharing Qualitative Research Projects
● "Gather" is a collection of multimedia oral history exhibits from Columbia's Oral History MA program
● Some of my favorite online, interactive exhibits:
○ "Still. Life.:The Story of Her Skin" by Nyssa Chow
○ "Hearing Voices" from Durham University's interdisciplinary study on voice hearing
○ "Who Are You? An Experiment in Storytelling" by Lily Doron:
○ "Becoming Wild Again in America: The Restoration and Resurgence of the Pablo-Allard Bison Herd" by Francine D. Spang-Willis