Narrative Medicine and Health Humanities

This site virtually shares resources in literature & the arts to foster creative and reflective work that nourishesclinicians, builds teams, and reduces social isolation.

A collection of articles from Health Affairs focusing on narratives in health care.

VeryWellHealth provides a brief overview of how narrative medicine can be beneficial to patients.

The American Association of Medical Colleges provides an overview of the role of narrative medicine in healthcare.

This transcript of a lecture by Margaret Mohrmann, MD, Phd focuses on the need for physicians to listen to their patients' stories.

The Temple University School of Medicine provides an overview of their narrative medicine program and its benefits.

This site provides a collection of stories in medicine.

Feedback Labs is a nonprofit organization providing a platform to gather consumer feedback on a variety of issues. Here they provide information on the use of narrative medicine to improve healthcare.

The US Department of Veterans Affairs documents the benefits of narrative medicine for veterans.

While the arts and sciences might sometimes be viewed as opposite ends of a spectrum, students and faculty at Harvard Medical School are embracing a convergence between these fields and seeing the benefits of artistic practice in their medical careers.

The C2S blog draws on the arts, the social and biological sciences to explore the many meanings of health and "dis-ease." Designed to be a locus where patients, their families and professionals can meet on a level playing field, it is the natural off-shoot of the Cell 2 Soul Online Journal. We encourage the submission of ideas, essays, poems, stories, humor, and timely reviews relating to the humanities and health care.

Explores the role that comics can play in healthcare.

This site will enable us to give undergraduate students pursuing careers in medicine and other health-related fields a sense of the role of the Humanities as undertaking a narrative, interpretive, critical, and analytical understanding of what it means to be human.

In this article, Alexa Miller discussed how the engaging woth the fine arts can help clinicians to become better diagnostitians.

This site provided by Georgetown University seeks to To provide a resource drawing on the visual, literary and listening arts to observe, understand and empathize with the experience of illness.

The International Health Humanities Network provides a global platform for innovative humanities scholars, medical, health and social care professionals, voluntary sector workers and creative practitioners to join forces with informal and family carers, service-users and the wider self-caring public to explore, celebrate and develop new approaches in advancing health and wellbeing through the arts and humanities in hospitals, residential and community settings.

The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for scholars, educators, students, patients, and others interested in medical humanities.

MedHumChat (short for Medical Humanities Chat) strives to foster reflection, empathy, and connection in healthcare through engagement with the arts and humanities, primarily through their Twitter chats.

This provides a collection of articles discussion the role of music in healing.

The Polyphony is a web platform that aims to stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities.

This article from US News and World
Reports discusses how "Aspiring doctors can unite the arts and patient care to creatively improve health care."

Publishing and distributes a first-person story or poem, together with a visual image or haiku, about health care, Pulse makes narrative medicine available to all and accessible to anyone.

This article in Scope, a publication of the Stanford School of Medicine, discussed how music can impact healing.

Fostering clinician well-being and a humanistic practice of medicine through visual art and reflective pedagogy

A collection of health humanities articles from Chest

Overall, the use of visual arts in medical school curricula can build visual literacy: the capacity to identify and analyze facial features, emotions, and general bodily presentations, including contextual features such as clothing, hair, and body art. With the ability to formulate and convey a detailed “picture” of the patient, clinicians can integrate aesthetic and clinical knowledge, helping facilitate the diagnosing of medical pathologies.