Medical Humanities: Art & Film

LitMed provides summaries and other information about films related to health. They tag main medical topics of the films, as well. This links directly to LitMed's category of Film, TV, and Video.

Library by the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics--an independent, non-partisan, non-religious Scottish charity composed of doctors, lawyers, psychologists, ethicists and other professionals from disciplines associated with medical ethics.

Article discussing prevalent myths about amnesia, from the British Medical Journal (BMJ)

“I am a nurse who uses comics to reflect on the complexities of illness and caregiving.”
MK Czerwiec (pronounced sir-wick), a.k.a. “Comic Nurse”

Fictional graphic novel series about a medical school student, then early practicing physician

Revival - A comic by Joshua Schor, M.D., illustrated by Natalie Koscal, M.A., and Kim Knoper, M.A.

Exhibition Collection of graphic medicine works that are part of the resources of the National Library of Medicine.

Comics' value in healthcare education

Books in the Graphic Medicine series reflect the value of comics as a resource for communicating about medicine and health.

Nathan Gray is a doctor specializing in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care, and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He uses comics and other artwork to promote empathy, educate others, and sometimes explore the ironies of the medical world.

"Visualizing the Virus is an international digital project that showcases and investigates the diverse ways in which SARS-Cov2 and the COVID-19 pandemic is visualized and the inequalities it makes visible."

Essay by Green MJ and Callender B.

Watch this interactive workshop to understand how graphic medicine can increase health literacy.

Yale Medicine Magazine, 2017 - Winter

Finds the visual arts may facilitate clinically relevant learning across a range of competencies. Article from Medical Education Online.

Artwork and writing that connects medicine and museums

from Stanford Medicine Magazine, 2017

Demonstrates the Five Question Protocol, "designed to enhance skills of observation in ways that can be translated to the clinical setting."

"Illuminating the Art of Medicine." Navigate art by medical topics, specialties, or core competencies.

Art Museum and Medical School partnered programs course syllabi

"Using materials from the historical collection of the National Library of Medicine, Dr. Adams will explore the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s critique of René Descartes’s theory of vision."

Article from the Journal of Humanities in rehabilitation