Narrative Medicine & Health Humanities

The MS in Narrative Medicine and the AMSA-sponsored event this summer are open to those considering medicine. The descriptors are provided here as attachments . If you would like to learn more, the following link will take you to a blog entry by Professor of Family Medicine at UC Irvine Johanna Shapiro on the Gold Foundation website that provides a cogent and insightful framework for understanding the value of narrative medicine: http://humanizingmedicine.org/toward-the-clinical-humanities-how-literature-and-the-arts-can-help-shape-humanism-and-professionalism-in-medical-education/ The Hastings Center recently issued a special supplement of the Hastings Center Report on “Narrative Ethics” that has multiple short essays from scholars in different fields. Here is the link to the editor’s introduction for those of you may be interested: http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/HCR/Detail.aspx?id=6739. MSinNarrativeMed.pdf
AMSANarrMedSummerInstitute2014.pdf