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“Health Humanities”: Medicine and the future of Humanities

WebAnna Savelyeva (T’20), took the HHL’s course Storytelling in Medicine and Health.She’s been kind enough to share her final paper for the class with the HHL. It discusses medicine and the future of the humanities.

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URL: https://sites.fhi.duke.edu/healthhumanitieslab/health-humanities-medicine-and-the-future-of-humanities/

What is the Health Humanities Lab

WebCo-sponsored by the Provost of Duke University, Sally Kornbluth, and the Chancellor of Duke Health, Eugene Washington, the FHI HHL is committed to facilitating collaborative innovations between practitioners and scholars in the humanities, arts, and interpretive social sciences, and their counterparts in the Health Sciences.

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FHI Health Humanities Lab (HHL) at Duke University

WebOur Team Bridging Humanities, Duke Health, and the Duke Global Health Institute

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Health Humanities Senior, Sujal Manohar, reflects on time at Duke …

WebThe Health Humanities Lab continues celebrating all of the its seniors as they embark on the next chapter of their life. The HHL Manager, Cuquis Robledo, had a conversation over Zoom with Sujal Manohar, who double majored in Neuroscience and Visual Arts and is a recipient of the Hart Fellowship, as she reflects on how she will use …

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History of Global Health FHI Health Humanities Lab (HHL) at …

WebWe begin with the first major infectious disease epidemics that emerged from increased trade and warfare: plague, syphilis and smallpox. After discussing nutritional deficiency diseases and the creation of “tropical medicine,” we use yellow fever, cholera, plague and hookworm as case studies to analyze international efforts to control disease in the …

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About Global Health Humanities

WebAbout. Since the mid-1970s, US-based medical students study the biomedical sciences to diagnosis and treat disease, but learn to heal illness through the humanities and arts. Medical humanities, an interdisciplinary field rooted in literature, philosophy, ethics, history, religion, and the visual and performing arts, is now an important part of

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Ray Barfield FHI Health Humanities Lab (HHL) at Duke University

WebRay Barfield is Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He received his MD and his PhD (in philosophy) from Emory University. He is a pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician with an interest in expanding the role of the humanities and the arts in the formation of physicians. Ray

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Nicole Barnes FHI Health Humanities Lab (HHL) at Duke University

WebNicole Barnes. Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, PhD, Assistant Professor of History and a Core Faculty Associate of the Health Humanities Lab, is a living legacy of the epidemiological transition. Her paternal grandmother lost five of her siblings to disease—three in their infancy to unknown illnesses, and twin sisters who contracted tuberculosis at

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Storytelling in Medicine & Health

WebThe aim of this course is to introduce students to storytelling as it relates to the complex world of medicine and health. Health, in this course, is understood “writ large”: health as development over the course of a lifetime, health as wellbeing, health as illness, treatment, and outcome; health as a synonym for “medicine” that also

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Brandon Kohrt FHI Health Humanities Lab (HHL) at Duke University

WebDr. Kohrt has worked in Nepal since 1996 and Liberia since 2010 where he investigates the effect of political trauma, ethnic discrimination, gender-based violence and poverty on mental health. He has investigated the mental health consequences of and designed interventions for child soldiers and earthquake survivors in Nepal.

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MK Czerwiec, aka Comic Nurse

WebMK Czerwiec, RN, MA is a nurse who uses comics to contemplate the complexities of illness and caregiving. She is the Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and a Senior Fellow of the George Washington School of Nursing Center for Health Policy & Media Engagement. Her clinical nursing experience …

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Chronic Health Conditions Storytelling Group

WebThe Duke Health Humanities Lab seeks participants for its fourth annual offering of the Chronic Health Conditions Storytelling (CHCS) group. Facilitated by Duke medical students Megha Gupta and Gabrielle van den Hoek and Duke undergraduate Lizzy Roy, advised by faculty member Karrie Stewart, and assisted by Health Humanities Lab Manager Eli …

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Ruby Friday Puppetry and the Poetic Body in Medicine, Health, …

WebMarina Tsaplina is a puppeteer and performing artist based in Brooklyn, NY whose work looks at the unique capacities of puppetry-bodies/objects to reveal embodiment, imagination, and the historic and poetic body in illness, (dis)ability and healing. She is the Health Humanities Lab artist-in-residence this semester and is artist lead of Reimagining …

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Health Humanities and Covid19, an interview with Ali Sloan

Web“I think what is special about the HHL and Health Humanities is that it is this different side of prehealth culture that isn’t toxic. It is one of community and it is one of love, and it is one of communication, honesty, openness, and vulnerability, and I would just love to see that permeate all aspects of campus because it has been one of the best things for …

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Duke Medical Ethics Journal Publishes Spring 2021 Edition

WebThe Duke Medical Ethics Journal (DMEJ) was created in 2019 by a team of students who recognized the importance, and lack, of ethics education in their pre-medical undergraduate curriculum. DMEJ’s goal is to change that by sparking conversation on Duke’s campus and beyond so that we might move past the notion that medicine as a …

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Reflection on Expressive Writing for Covid-19

WebScreenshot of some of the participants from the Expressive Writing for Covid19 Workshop. John Evans on the top right, and the Lab Manager, Cuquis Robledo, is second from the left on top. This series is supported by Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. Expressive writing is a beautiful methodology for “writing down the bones”, especially …

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Keepers of the House FHI Health Humanities Lab (HHL) at Duke …

WebIt is our hope that the film will enable health care providers and students to see the housekeepers in a new light, and give serious consideration to the vital themes of empathy, humility, and teamwork. To schedule a special showing or discussion, contact: [email protected]. Watch online here: Keepers of the House. Watch on.

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Kathy Walmer Haiti Lab

WebKathy Walmer is the Executive Director of Family Health Ministries, whose mission is to support Haitian communities and their efforts to build and sustain healthy families.She also teaches at the Duke Global Health Institute and is the program leader of DukeEngage in Haiti.She has collaborated on many Haiti Lab projects, including the Standard of Care …

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Narrative Medicine for Medical Learners

WebNarrative Medicine for Medical Learners. Offered: Spring. Course: INTERDIS 403C. This elective course is a fourth year clinical elective where students will discuss selected works of literature that address the human condition in a way that is meaningful to physicians-in-training. The course is open to third and fourth year medical students.

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Breastfeeding Beliefs and Practices in Haiti Haiti Lab

WebThe project: …works at the intersections of anthropology, history and public health to explore breastfeeding beliefs and practices in Haiti. It draws on survey and ethnographic research conducted from May-July 2011 in Leogane, the epicenter of the January 12, 2010 earthquake. An analysis of this data offers a novel summary and description of

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