The Medical/Health Humanities-Politics, Programs, and Pedagogies

This book covers a brief history of the Health Humanities Consortium and contains a toolkit for those academic leaders determined to launch inter- and multi-disciplinary health humanities programs in their own colleges and universities. It offers remarkable discussions and descriptions of pedagogical practices from undergraduate programs through medical education and resident training; philosophical and political analyses of structural injustices and clinical biases; and insightful and informative analyses of imaginative work such as comics, literary texts, and paintings.
Previously published in Journal of Medical Humanities Volume 42, issue 4, December 2021

Chapters "Reflective Writing about Near-Peer Blogs: A Novel Method for Introducing the Medical Humanities in Premedical Education", "Medical Students' Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation", "Reconsidering Empathy: An InterpersonalApproach and Participatory Arts in the Medical Humanities" and "The Health Benefits of Autobiographical Writing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

List of contents

From the Editor.- To Be or Not: A Brief History of the Health Humanities Consortium.- Developing New Academic Programs in the Medical/Health Humanities: A Toolkit to Support Continued Growth.- Reflective Writing about Near-Peer Blogs: A Novel Method for Introducing the Medical Humanities in Premedical Education.- "Now I know how to not repeat history": Teaching and Learning Through a Pandemic with the Medical Humanities.- Medical Education for What?: Neoliberal Fascism Versus Social Justice.- Medical Students' Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation.- Reconsidering Empathy: An Interpersonal Approach and Participatory Arts in the Medical Humanities.- Patient Co-Participation in Narrative Medicine Curricula as a Means of Engaging Patients as Partners in Healthcare: A Pilot Study Involving Medical Students and Patients Living with HIV.- A Value-Added Health Systems Science Intervention Based onMy Life, My Story for Patients Living with HIV and Medical Students: Translating Narrative Medicine from Classroom to Clinic.- Screenplays and Screenwriting as an Innovative Teaching Tool in Medical Ethics Education.- Confronting the Hidden Curriculum: A Four-Year Integrated Course in Ethics and Professionalism Grounded in Virtue Ethics.- The Health Benefits of Autobiographical Writing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.- Going Beyond the Data: Using Testimonies to Humanize Pedagogy on Black Health.- Voices from the Front Lines: An Analysis of Physicians' Reflective Narratives about Flaws with the 'System'.- Investigating the Meaning of Patient Ownership: An Exploratory Study of a Commonly Used Phrase within an Internal Medicine Department.- "It just went wrong, as bodies are prone to do": Graphic Medicine and the Trauma of Miscarriage.- Doctored Images: Enacting "Pain-Work" in John Berger and Jean Mohr's A Fortunate Man (1967).- Leonardo DaVinci's Archival of the Dermatologic Condition.- A Breast Cancer Experience Re-narrated: The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.- Mass Effect - 1st Place.- Water - 2nd Place.- Satsuma - 3rd Place.

About the author

Therese (Tess) Jones is Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.  She is a Professor in the Department of Medicine.  Jones is the editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities¿; lead editor for the Health Humanities Reader¿ (Rutgers University Press 2014); and co-editor of the upcoming Handbook on Health and Media (under contract with Routledge Publishing).  She teaches health humanities and disability studies in the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy and the Physical Therapy and Physician Assistants Programs.  She developed the undergraduate Health Humanities Minor for the University of Colorado Denver and the Graduate Certificate in Health Humanities and Ethics.  She is involved with the American Association of Medical College's initiative on the humanities and arts in medical educationand has and is serving on sub-committees to design and implement the new Trek Curriculum in the School of Medicine.      

Katheen Pachucki is the editorial assistant of the Journal of Medical Humanities and divides her time and expertise between JMH and a publication from the American Society of Microbiology.

Product details

• Assisted by: Therese Jones (Editor), Pachucki (Editor), Kathleen Pachucki (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2022
• EAN: 9783031192265
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3119226-5
• No. of pages: 297
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 20 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: VII, 297 p. 14 illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories