Scholars, educators, patients, students, and anyone interested in medical humanities can search this site for annotated entries that describe works of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art related to medicine. Housed at the NYU School of Medicine, the annotations are written by an editoral board of medical humanities scholars from across North America.
Users of the site can search by words or phrases of their own, peruse an alphabetical index of titles, or use the extensive system of tags. It is possible to narrow a search to a particular kind of work (e.g., “All visual arts” or just photography, painting/drawing, or sculpture) or to medical humanities topics (e.g., history of medicine, medical anthropology, science and medicine). Stories by “physician” or “nurse” can also be searched. The site has over 3000 items at the time of this submission.
An entry includes a summary description of the work as well as a commentary.
Access
- Link: https://medhum.med.nyu.edu/
Details
Language: English
Setting (class level or workshop): Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate, and Community
Medium: written, audio, video, and image
Contributed by: Daena Goldsmith