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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