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

Contents
From the Editor
To Be or Not: A Brief History of the Health Humanities Consortium
Abstract
Prehistory
“You need a reader”
Something new
What comes next
Endnotes
References
Developing New Academic Programs in the MedicalHealth Humanities: A Toolkit to Support Continued Growth
Abstract
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Reflective Writing about Near-Peer Blogs: A Novel Method for Introducing the Medical Humanities in Premedical Education
Abstract
Introduction
Methods
Results
Theme 1: empathic conflict
Theme 2: bias in healthcare
Theme 3: “the humanity of medicine”
Overarching theme: near-peer affinities
Discussion
Theme 1: empathic conflict
Theme 2: bias in healthcare
Theme 3: the “humanity of medicine”
Overarching theme: near-peer affinities
Limitations
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
“Now I know how to not repeat history”: Teaching and Learning Through a Pandemic with the Medical Humanities
Abstract
“Pandemics and Plagues”: an undergraduate course for a pandemic semester
Students from across the disciplines and around the world
Their stories: assessing student learning in “Pandemics and Plagues”
Increasing understanding
Developing skills
Gaining interest
Integration of learning
Discussion: on living in interesting times
Interdisciplinary insights
Social justice and history
Conclusion: teaching and learning through a pandemic
Acknowledgements
References
Medical Education for What?: Neoliberal Fascism Versus Social Justice
Abstract
“Stay in your lane”
Neoliberal fascism in the end times – like the 1930s, only worse
Stick to pathology - study down
Institutional forgetting – Dr. Mona Hannah-Attisha, and me, at Michigan State University
“Thinking otherwise” with the medical humanities – against pedagogies of violence in medical school
Thinking otherwise with Dr. Mona Hannah-Attisha – get out of your lane and “study up” your town
References
Medical Students’ Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation
Abstract
Introduction
Subjects and methods
Data analysis
Quantitative results
Qualitative findings
Main theme
Supporting themes
Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Reconsidering Empathy: An Interpersonal Approach and Participatory Arts in the Medical Humanities
Abstract
The empathy approach
The empathy approach reconsidered
An interpersonal approach
Interpersonal approach applied: music program and evaluation
Evaluation
Results
Discussion
Framework for an interpersonal approach
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
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
Abstract
Introduction
Methods
Study setting and participants
Intervention description
Case study design
Data collection and analysis
Compensation
Results
Reciprocity and collaboration
Self-reflection with others
Clinical and pedagogical implications
Discussion
Conclusions
References
A Value-Added Health Systems Science Intervention Based on My Life, My Story for Patients Living with HIV and Medical Students: Translating Narrative Medicine from Classroom to Clinic
Abstract
Introduction
Methods
Development of the LNP
Study recruitment
Pilot implementation of the LNP
Case study design
Data collection and analysis
Compensation
Results
I. Role of life narratives in perceived therapeutic effects of the LNP from patients’ perspectives
II. Potential range of LNP’s effects for patients living with HIV from MCA staff’s perspectives
III. The unique pedagogical value of the LNP from students’ perspectives
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Screenplays and Screenwriting as an Innovative Teaching Tool in Medical Ethics Education
Abstract
Background
Storytelling and writing screenplays
Properties of screenplays
Screenplays for classroom use
Selection of topics
Writing process
Screenplays in the classroom
Encouraging screenwriting
References
Confronting the Hidden Curriculum: A Four-Year Integrated Course in Ethics and Professionalism Grounded in Virtue Ethics
Abstract
Introduction
Virtue ethics approach
Brief historical background
HCS curriculum
Preclinical years
Clinical years
Conclusion
References
The Health Benefits of Autobiographical Writing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Abstract
Introduction
Does it feel like writing helps?
The expressive writing paradigm
What is it about writing that helps?
Narrative and cognition: stories are how humans make sense of experiences
Problems with psychological accounts of writing's health benefits
A narratological resolution to a psychological paradox
A paradox resolved: narrative and conflict
Why does writing help? Conflict and psychological resolution
Why does writing about life experiences help? An interdisciplinary perspective
Future directions
References
Going Beyond the Data: Using Testimonies to Humanize Pedagogy on Black Health
Abstract
Centering the patient, not the illness or provider
Situating Black patients within a context of racism
Amoralizing Black health
Limitations
Conclusion
References
Voices from the Front Lines: An Analysis of Physicians’ Reflective Narratives about Flaws with the ‘System’
Abstract
Introduction
Method
Results
What physicians identified as flawed about the ‘system’
Failures of communication
The erosive impact of the hidden curriculum
Inadequate health advocacy
The frenzied pace of work
The experience of stigma
Restrictive institutional practices
Limited and disparate healthcare resources
How physicians perceived their own agency to change the flawed ‘system’
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Investigating the Meaning of Patient Ownership: An Exploratory Study of a Commonly Used Phrase within an Internal Medicine Department
Abstract
Introduction
Patient ownership
Psychological ownership
Methods
Results
Third-year students
Fourth-year students
Residents
Attending physicians
Discussion
References
“It just went wrong, as bodies are prone to do”: Graphic Medicine and the Trauma of Miscarriage
Abstract
“I FEEL SO EXPOSED!”: Diane Noomin’s Baby Talk: A Tale of 3/4 Miscarriages
“But it was OUR cluster of cells!”: Paula Knight’s The Facts of Life
“I’m so sorry you LOST the baby!”: Phoebe Potts’ Good Eggs
“Then I disappeared”: Jenell Johnson’s Present/Perfect
Conclusion
References
Doctored Images: Enacting “Pain-Work” in John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man (1967)
Abstract
Introduction
Pain-work: punctuating the text, puncturing the body
Pain-work: recognition and witnessing
Conclusion: the modest witness and pain-work
References
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Archival of the Dermatologic Condition
Abstract
Ginevra de’ Benci (1474-1478)
Elisabetta del Giocondo, the Mona Lisa (1503-1506)
Acknowledgements
References
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
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