The Medical/Health Humanities-Politics, Programs, and Pedagogies

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This book covers a brief history of the Health Humanities Consortium and contains a toolkit for those academic leaders determined to launch inter- and multi-disciplinary health humanities programs in their own colleges and universities. It offers remarkable discussions and descriptions of pedagogical practices from undergraduate programs through medical education and resident training; philosophical and political analyses of structural injustices and clinical biases; and insightful and informative analyses of imaginative work such as comics, literary texts, and paintings.<div><br></div>Previously published in<i> Journal of Medical Humanities</i> Volume 42, issue 4, December 2021<br><div><br></div><div>Chapters Reflective Writing about Near-Peer Blogs: A Novel Method for Introducing the Medical Humanities in Premedical Education, Medical Students Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation, Reconsidering Empathy: An InterpersonalApproach and Participatory Arts in the Medical Humanities and The Health Benefits of Autobiographical Writing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.<br></div>

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<b>Therese (Tess) Jones</b>is Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.&nbsp; She is a Professor in the Department of Medicine.&nbsp; Jones is the editor of the&nbsp;Journal of Medical Humanities;&nbsp;lead editor for the&nbsp;Health Humanities Reader&nbsp;(Rutgers University Press 2014); and co-editor of the upcoming&nbsp;Handbook on Health and Media&nbsp;(under contract with Routledge Publishing).&nbsp; She teaches health humanities and disability studies in the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy and the Physical Therapy and Physician Assistants Programs.&nbsp; She developed the undergraduate Health Humanities Minor for the University of Colorado Denver and the Graduate Certificate in Health Humanities and Ethics.&nbsp;&nbsp;She is involved with the American Association of Medical Colleges initiative on the humanities and arts in medical educationand has and is serving on sub-committees to design and implement the new Trek Curriculum in the School of Medicine.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><div><br></div><div><p><b>Katheen&nbsp;</b><b>Pachucki</b> is the editorial assistant of the Journal of Medical Humanities and divides her time and expertise between&nbsp;<i>JMH</i>&nbsp;and a publication from the American Society of Microbiology.</p><br></div>

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