Measuring Impact in Medical Humanities Work: Survive and Thrive Journal
Survive and Thrive journal may not score highly on traditional impact metrics, says co-editor David Beard, but it is still important work.
Heartbreak
In this creative essay, James Borton explores the lived experience of heart bypass surgery and recovery.
Interrogating Medical Aid in Dying Rhetorics
Analysis of testimony at Medical Aid in Dying hearings challenges the ableist normalisation of authorised disposability of certain members of the population, says Christa Teston.
Studying Persuasion in Health and Medical Contexts
Hillary A. Ash explains the importance of the study of rhetoric in the medical humanities as part of our ‘MedHums 101’ series.
Asking Great Questions: Humanistic Methodologies and the Future of Care
Jane McGrail reports back from the April 2022 conference “A Crisis of Caring: The Humanities and Our Health”, where the National Humanities Center of North Carolina facilitated Medical Humanities conversations across an interdisciplinary cohort of experts.
‘Dying of Whiteness’: Book Review
Rachel Jane Liebert reviews Jonathan Metzl’s Dying of Whiteness: How the politics of racial resentment is killing America’s heartland (Basic Books: 2019). Having found Jonathan Metzl’s previous books – Prozac on the Couch and The