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Health as a Human Right ICLS Columbia University

WebCurator: Barkha Kagliwal, Cornell University (Ph.D, ’22) The importance of preservation of health under conditions of incarceration, spaces of exception, and extreme financial crisi s. Perspectives on Health as a Human Right focuses on the loss of health as a consequence of the cause and not of the condition of crisis, and brings together the

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Narrative, Health, and Social Justice ICLS Columbia University

WebNarrative medicine – its practice and scholarship – is necessarily concerned with issues of trauma, body, memory, voice, and intersubjectivity.

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Rita Charon ICLS Columbia University

WebRita Charon, MD, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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Medical Humanities is now a full Major!

WebWe would like to share the happy news that Medical Humanities (formerly known as Medicine, Literature and Society) has officially been approved as a new Columbia undergraduate major! This approval could not be more critical and timely. Medical Humanities is an emerging field that engages with humanities, social sciences, and …

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Arden Hegele ICLS Columbia University

WebArden Hegele, PhD, specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and the medical and health humanities. Her first book is Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading, published with Oxford University Press in 2022. Her second book, Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities (co-edited with Dr. Rishi Goyal), …

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Medical Humanities Major ICLS Columbia University

WebThe interdisciplinary major in Medical Humanities, offered by the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society, prepares qualified students to explore the biological, social, economic and cultural dimensions of health and medicine in a global and multilingual framework. At the level of the individual patient, medicine and medical systems

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Announcing the Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms …

WebTo mark the launch of the Medical Humanities major at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, we are hosting an inaugural virtual series, “Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms,” which will serve as an essential rallying point for Columbia faculty, current students, and alumni of the Medicine, Literature and Society …

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Space, Place and Design in the Medical and Health Humanities

WebCFP: CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Network Summer Institute 2020. University of Southern Denmark, Odense June 25-27, 2020. Space, Place and Design in the Medical and Health Humanities

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Humanities Connections: Medicine, Literature and Society

WebThe Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) at Columbia University has received a Humanities Connections grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the development of new classes and Medical Humanities major. There has been a growing recognition in fields as diverse as biomechanics, neuroscience and

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Explorations in the Medical Humanities ICLS Columbia University

WebOn March 29-30, 2019, we will host a workshop, “Explorations in the Medical Humanities,” with invited speakers from a range of disciplines and humanistic institutions. The event will take place at the Heyman Center for the Humanities. We will feature the work of interdisciplinary speakers in three 90-minute panels organized according to

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Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence

WebAs the first Humanities project by the Columbia World Projects, this project seeks to increase public confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine.By harnessing the power of data science and artificial intelligence, it will develop evidence-based public messaging that encourages vaccination, in partnership with local public health departments.Nearly a …

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New Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium in Medical Humanities

WebInterdisciplinary Symposium in Medical Humanities Columbia University Departments of English, Medical Humanities & Ethics, and The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society . Columbia University has launched a pioneer curricular collaboration between the Arts & Sciences campus in Morningside Heights and the Columbia …

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Disaster Medicine: Equitable Health Care in a Changing Climate

WebNot only are these disasters fatal and costly, but they increase existing health disparities by differentially reducing access to medical care and exacerbating chronic conditions. Efforts to (re-)build environments resilient under extreme weather must be responsive to principles of climate justice. To explore the challenges of equitably

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Richard Parker ICLS Columbia University

WebDr. Richard Parker is a medical anthropologist. His research focuses on the social and cultural construction of gender and sexuality, the social and political aspects of HIV/AIDS, and the relationship between social inequality, stigma, discrimination, and the social determinants of health.

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Aging and Social Justice ICLS Columbia University

WebIn this module, we ask that you consider aging as a social justice issue, and how these many intersectional issues fall under it as well. We hope to conceptualize aging in such a way as to open up a dialogue between scholars, students, medical professionals, artists, care-workers, and activists surrounding the idea of aging in the United States

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The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United

WebThe Society of Fellows in the Humanities. Center for Science and Society. The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

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Takeover: A documentary on The Young Lords Emma Francis …

WebThe short-subject documentary — directed by Emma Francis-Snyder and produced by Market Road Films’ Tony Gerber — chronicles the 12 historic hours in 1970 when 50 members of the Young Lords Party stormed the dilapidated Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and made their cries for health justice known to the world.

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Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Chronic Pain and

WebAlongside Dr. Adams’s work on the role of personal narrative in disability studies, this talk reimagines the chronic pain crisis in America in terms of personal embodiment. In other words, bringing personhood back into the public health framework. Please email [email protected] to request disability accommodations.

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Fall 2021 Possible Courses for Medical Humanities

WebFall 2021 Human Rights BC3850 HUMAN RIGHTS & PUBLIC HEALTH: Section 001: HUMAN RIGHTS & PUBLIC HEA Call Number: 00059 Points: 4 View in Vergil Day/Time: T 6:10pm-8:00pm Location: To be announced Enrollment: 0 students (20 max) as of March 30, 2021 Instructor: Widney Brown Fall 2021 Human Rights UN3933

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House for King and Slave’: Patients and Medical Practice in the

WebThe Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities. Center for Science and Society. The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

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