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 Interpersonal Approach 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.

Auteur

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.