University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVa SOM)

UVa SOM Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities

Other University of Virginia Publications:

• Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR): A National Journal of Literature & Discussion
• Meridian: The semiannual literary journal produced in conjunction with the university's M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing
• Hedgehog Review: A nationally distributed journal of the UVa Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, published three times a year. Issues are thematic, with articles, interviews, book reviews, and a bibliography.
  Fall 2006 Issue is dedicated to "Illness & Suffering."
• Iris: A Journal About Women: Packed with intelligent essays, articles, fiction, poetry, and art, iris is a biannual magazine for progressive young women. iris brings together contributions from writers, artists, and university scholars from all over the world. Published by the University of Virginia Women's Center.
• Veritas: The literary arts magazine for medical students at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Published by the Center for Humanism in Medicine (CHM).

Local Publication:

• Streetlight: A journal of art and literature. Streetlight Magazine is a program of the Charlottesville Writing Center dedicated to publishing the best creative writing and artwork from Charlottesville, Virginia, and surrounding areas.

National Resources, Publications, & Kindred Spirits:

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. ASBH promotes the exchange of ideas and fosters multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and inter-professional scholarship, research, teaching, policy development, professional development, and collegiality among people engaged in clinical and academic bioethics and the medical humanities.

Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and Humanities. A biannual literary journal in print format that explores the interface between the arts and medicine, and includes narratives from patients and health care workers, medical history, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. An initiative of the Mount Sinai Hospital Dept. of Psychiatry University of Toronto, Canada.

ATRIUM: the Report of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. A forum for art and ideas expressing the intersection of bioethics and medical humanities, engaging with topics of public concern.

Bellevue Literary Review: A Journal of Humanity & Human Experience. Published by the Department of Medicine at New York University. BLR is available in a print format, offering previously unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that touch upon relationships to the human body, illness, health and healing.

Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine (Conference). The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host a three-day conference, APril 23-25, 2008, focusing on the links between the science of medicine and the art of writing. Conference goals: to foster collaboration and discussion on the role of creative writing in medical education and writing throughout a lifelong career as a physician; to share initiatives that demonstrate the role of creative writing in patient care; to offer skill-building sessions on writing, editing, and publishing creative work.

Finding Meaning in Medicine: Reclaiming the Heart & Soul of Medicine. Since the Fall of 2000, the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (ISHI) has been assisting physicians nation-wide to develop self-directed, on-going, values and meaning discussion groups in their communities, independent of institutional support. ISHI is directed by Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, founder of the Healer's Art curriculum for medical students used throughout the country.

Healer's Voice. The American Medical Student Association's on-line arts journal for physicians, medical students, and premedical students.

Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database. An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art developed to be a resource in medical humanities, for use in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings. It is a multi-institutional project, initiated by the New York University School of Medicine.

Program in Narrative Medicine. Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D., is a general internist and literary scholar at Columbia University and the Director of the Program of Narrative Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Dr. Charon is also an editor of the journal Literature and Medicine.

Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. This new magazine is dedicated to publishing personal accounts of illness, fostering the humanistic practice of medicine, and encouraging health care advocacy. Patients and health professionals are invited to sign up as a friend to the magazine to receive the issues and/or to submit original creative work.

Taos Writing Retreat for Health Professionals. Sponsored annually each August by the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Office of Continuing Education and the Permanente Journal, Kaiser Permanente. A space for reflection, exploration, and growth, held at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico.

The Healing Muse is the annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University's Center for Bioethics & Humanities. They welcome fiction, poetry, narratives, essays, memoirs and visual art, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine, illness, disability and healing.

WebDelSol. A multi-faceted portal, which seeks to acquire and frame the finest contemporary literary art and culture available in America and abroad. This site is designed to explores new forms of artistic and literary expression in new media, hypertext, film, photography, and the literary arts, and to build an electronic community and nexus which fosters collaboration between these forms.

Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. An online clearinghouse for scholarship treating the humanities and medicine.