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    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.

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    • Fortunate People—50 Years of Country Doctoring
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      Humanities
      September 28, 2023

      This Arts and Medicine feature reviews journalist Polly Morland’s A Fortunate Woman, a 2022 follow-up to John Berger’s 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.

      Humanities Health Care Quality Health Care Workforce
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    • Stuck in an Avalanche—A Graphic Story
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      Humanities
      September 26, 2023

      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.

      Humanities Neurology
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    • Communicating Risk Perceptions Through Batik Art
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      Humanities
      September 5, 2023

      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.

      Humanities Shared Decision Making and Communication Public Health Population Health
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    • The Gregor Mendel Bicentennial Tribute—Enduring Mementos of the Founder of Genetics
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      Humanities
      July 25, 2023

      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.

      Humanities Genetics and Genomics History of Medicine
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    • Gaudeamus Igitur at 40—A Tribute and Assessment
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      Humanities
      June 27, 2023

      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.

      Humanities Poetry Poetry and Medicine Ischemic Heart Disease Acute Coronary Syndromes
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    • The Mould That Changed the World —A Musical Paean to Penicillin
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      Humanities
      May 23, 2023

      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.

      Humanities Infectious Diseases Antibiotic Use, Overuse, Resistance, Stewardship
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    • “The Art of the Craft,” From The Covenant of Water
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      Humanities
      May 2, 2023

      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 “condition” that consigns at least 1 member per generation to death by drowning.

      Humanities Endocrine Surgery Surgery
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    • Collective —Documentary of a National Health Care Tragedy
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      Humanities
      February 14, 2023

      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.

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    • The Collected Schizophrenias —Narrative Insights Into Schizoaffective Disorder
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      Humanities
      January 10, 2023

      This Arts and Medicine feature reviews The Collected Schizophrenias, a 2019 essay collection by Esmé Weijun Wang about her experiences living with schizoaffective disorder.

      Humanities Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
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    • Graphic Medicine—The Best of 2022
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      Humanities
      December 27, 2022

      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.

      Humanities Ethics Public Health
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    • Theater for Vaccine Hesitancy—Setting the Stage for Difficult Conversations
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      Humanities
      September 20, 2022

      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.

      Humanities Vaccination Public Health Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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    • Just the Plague: Reflections on State Control of Infectious Outbreaks
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      Humanities
      September 6, 2022

      This Arts and Medicine feature reviews novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya’s Just the Plague, a fictionalization of a historic 1939 plague outbreak in Moscow that has parallels with the 21st-century coronavirus pandemic.

      Humanities History of Medicine Infectious Diseases Coronavirus (COVID-19) Public Health
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    • Art and the Fight Against Tuberculosis
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      Humanities
      August 9, 2022

      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.

      Humanities Infectious Diseases Tuberculosis
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    • JAMA ’s The Arts and Medicine Section at 5 Years—Progress and Opportunities
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      Humanities
      June 28, 2022

      In this essay, the Arts and Medicine editor reviews features in the section over the past 5 years, covering visual arts, culture, design, performance, history, and more, and offers welcome to future contributions.

      Humanities History of Medicine
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    • Ebstein Anomaly—Of Veils and Visions
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      Humanities
      June 14, 2022

      This Arts and Medicine feature describes a surgeon’s creation of a block print inspired by the otherworldly appearance of an Ebstein anomaly during cardiac valve repair surgery.

      Cardiothoracic Surgery Pediatrics Surgery Humanities Congenital Defects
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    • Asclepius Revisited—Ancient Myth and 21st-Century Psychedelic Medicine
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      Humanities
      May 17, 2022

      This Arts and Medicine essay reviews how 21st-century evidence-based approaches to the use of psychedelic medicine replicate the ancient practices of Asclepian medicine.

      Humanities History of Medicine Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
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    • Musical Expressions of the Hippocratic Oath
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      Humanities
      March 22, 2022

      This Arts and Medicine feature reintroduces 2 modernist classical music pieces composed in the 1980s for physician audiences that express key themes from the Oath of Hippocrates.

      Humanities History of Medicine
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    • The Women’s Wrighting Group—Nurturing the Heart of Primary Care
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      Humanities
      February 15, 2022

      This Arts and Medicine feature describes a primary care women’s writing group in which patients joined a physician and psychologist to share personal experiences through journal entries and support each other through health and other challenges over the years.

      Humanities Narrative Medicine
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    • The COVID-19 Pandemic in Serial Medical Dramas
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      Humanities
      January 4, 2022

      This Arts and Medicine feature summarizes representations of the coronavirus pandemic in the storylines of serial medical dramas that aired between November 2020 and May 2021.

      Humanities Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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    • Graphic Medicine—The Best of 2021
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      Humanities
      December 28, 2021

      This Arts and Medicine feature reviews 2 outstanding graphic novels of 2021: Coma by Zara Slattery, about the author’s delirium while being treated for streptococcal sepsis and multiorgan failure, and Parenthesis by Élodie Durand, about her experience with tumor-induced seizures.

      Humanities Neurology Sepsis Resuscitation Critical Care Medicine
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