Vote to Make Us Official!
If you are an MLA member, it appears that more work is needed to move new MLA forums from the merely “proposed” status — Log on to MLA Commons and endorse the creation of the forum. If you are interested…
New MLA Structure, Med Humanities & Health Studies Added
The Modern Language Association has announced its new restructuring (of the old “divisions” and “discussion groups”) into “forums,” organized by general categories. In the category “Transdisciplinary Connections,” the new forum “Medical Humanities and Health Studies” has been formed. Details here:…
Alda on Effective Science Communication
A blog post on the Scholarly Kitchen concerns Alan Alda’s talk at the AAAS meeting: Although Alda didn’t mention this explicitly, one of the premises of his talk is that this approach to communication is grounded in the study of…
Casebooks Project
The Casebooks Project makes the medical records of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, two of England’s most popular seventeenth century astrologers, available online at http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.a…. Researchers at the University of Cambridge are funded by the Wellcome Trust to make these documents,…
Wellcome, Palgrave Macmillan, Open-Access Monograph Project
Reported by Jennifer Howard in the 19 Nov. 2013 Chronicle of Higher Education: Last May the Wellcome Trust, a leading British sponsor of biomedical research,expanded its support for open access to include monographs as well as journal articles. In partnership with…
Medical Humanities Project on Dentistry & Teeth in Britain
Dr Claire L. Jones, Director of the Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Leeds writes: At the Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Leeds, we are currently developing a new…
The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (Fall 2013)
The Fall 2013 issue of The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine has been published: http://www.theintima.org/
Review of Annual Assoc Med Hum Conference
William Viney, writing for the Centre for Medical Humanities blog, reviews the recent annual conference of the Association for Medical Humanities: http://medicalhumanities.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/annual-association-for-medical-humanities-conference-university-of-aberdeen-8th-10th-july-2013-review/ The AMH is a professional organization in the UK and Ireland: http://www.amh.ac.uk/
Private Practices, Public Health: Privacy-Aware Processing to Maximize Access to Health Collections
The Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School has received a $202,900 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a program administered by the Council on Library Resources (CLIR) to increase access…
Article: Communication & Medical Humanities
Bleakley, Alan, and Marshall, Robert. “Can the Science of Communication Inform the Art of the Medical Humanities?” Medical Education, 47.2 (Feb. 2013):126-133. Abstract: CONTEXT There is increasing interest in establishing the medical humanities as core integrated provision in undergraduate medicine…
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