Author Archives: Rachel Warner

ENGL 611 Narrative, Literature, & Medicine: Advanced Interdisciplinary Seminar TR 3:30:4:45pm Jane Danielewicz Sociologist Arthur Frank asserts that “whether ill people want to tell stories or not, illness calls for stories.” This seminar explores narrative approaches to suffering, healing, and … Read more

The Health Evidence Network (HEN) is an information service for public health decision-makers in the WHO European Region, in action since 2003 and initiated and coordinated by the WHO Regional Office for Europe under the umbrella of the European Health … Read more

The following article is reposted from the Daily Tar Heel and is part of a series of profiles on professors doing interesting things across UNC’s campus. Jane Thrailkill has been interested in the relationship between literature and illness, between the humanities … Read more

The following article has been reprinted from Lisa Diedrich’s personal blog. In case you missed it: at a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump made fun of Hillary Clinton’s recent bout of pneumonia, imitating her stumbling into her car at the … Read more

Doctoral Fellowships in Medicine and the Humanities With its roughly 7500 personnel working in a vast range of different occupational groups, Mainz University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is one of the largest employers in the State … Read more

2017-18 Postdoctoral Associates (2 positions) Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA), Rutgers University The Medical Humanities is an emerging field that explores the relationship between culture and society, on the one hand, and medical science and clinical practice, on the other. … Read more

New to the Carolina community this Fall semester, the Health Humanities Journal of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will assist in initiating and engaging discussion among the undergraduate and graduate communities about the up-and-coming Health and Medical Humanities fields. The main purpose of … Read more