Explore essays addressing the interface between arts, culture, and medicine, including movie and book reviews and rare glimpses into the therapeutic application of arts to the human body.
This JAMA Arts and Medicine feature describes ways in which Fritz Kahn shared a prescient and nuanced vision of technology鈥檚 role in the patient-physician interaction, a topic of continued interest and relevance today, through his illustrations.
This Arts and Medicine feature discusses INSPIRE, a digital health game designed to foster adolescent health behavior change.
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews the clinical and neurophysiologic features of earworms, music fragments heard in the mind that repeat over and over as if jammed in playback mode.
This Arts and Medicine feature coauthored by a patient and her hospital clinicians describes the use of hand-drawn window art in hospital rooms as a way to bring color and creativity into inpatient settings and build community among hospital staff and patients.
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews the history of pellagra and recounts the role of artist and illustrator John Carroll who, in 1919, painted portraits of people with the vitamin deficiency to document in color the appearance of pellagra skin plaques.
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews 4 health-related graphic medicine (comic) projects judged as the best of 2022 by the Graphic Medicine International Collective.
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews The Autumn Ghost, an historical retelling of the 1952 polio epidemic in Copenhagen, Denmark, which catalyzed developments in anesthesia and respiratory support procedures that are still in use today.
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews journalist Polly Morland鈥檚 A Fortunate Woman, a 2022 follow-up to John Berger鈥檚 classic 1967 A Fortunate Man, detailing changes over 50 years in the rewards and challenges of primary care practice in small-town rural general practice in northern England.
This Arts and Medicine feature tells the story of a patient with undiagnosed illness caught in the futile administrative cycles of the US health care system.
This Arts and Medicine essay describes creation of a batik art installation titled Risktalk, illustrating trends in mentions of public health and non-health risk-related topics in popular written media from 1810 to 2009.
This Arts and Medicine feature summarizes events and scholarship honoring Abbot Gregor Mendel, founder of the science of modern genetics, on the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth.
This Arts and Medicine feature discusses the continuing relevance of the 1983 poem Gaudeamus Igitur by John Stone, which offers wisdom and guiding principles about the practice of medicine to newly graduated young physicians.
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews The Mould That Changed the World, a musical about the history of penicillin that uses fringe set design, eccentric staging, and quirky lyrics to teach audiences the importance of antimicrobial stewardship.
This Arts and Medicine feature excerpts a chapter from The Covenant of Water, the new novel from Abraham Verghese, which follows the lives of a family in South India over the 20th century who have a 鈥渃ondition鈥 that consigns at least 1 member per generation to death by drowning.
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews the 2019 movie Collective, which documents corruption underlying poor patient outcomes in the Romanian national health system and provides an update on the people and reform efforts featured in the film.
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews The Collected Schizophrenias, a 2019 essay collection by Esm茅 Weijun Wang about her experiences living with schizoaffective disorder.
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews 2 books published in 2022: a clinical ethics graphic medicine casebook illustrating how ethical dilemmas in clinical practice play out in real situations; and a graphic public health comics anthology showing how comics meet the needs of risk communication and health promotion.
This Arts and Medicine feature describes use of improvisational theater techniques to train health care workers to have persuasive and respectful conversations with vaccine-hesitant patients about accepting COVID-19 vaccination.
This Arts and Medicine feature reviews novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya鈥檚 Just the Plague, a fictionalization of a historic 1939 plague outbreak in Moscow that has parallels with the 21st-century coronavirus pandemic.
This Arts and Medicine essay reviews the work of visual artist Paula Siniatkina, who has used her experience as a patient previously quarantined and treated for tuberculosis to create art intended to represent and destigmatize the disease.
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