Category: Blog

Dr. Danielle Ofri’s Grand Rounds: Medical Error in Modern Medicine It is human to err. This saying is commonplace, echoed in education and work, in our many interactions. The human experience is defined by error, yet we as humans continue … Read more

Near the beginning of her career, Marion Quirici was struck by the “impossibility of survival with dignity for people with disabilities under neoliberalism.” As the co-director of the Health Humanities Lab at Duke University, Quirici studies the lived experience of … Read more

So what did you do last summer? For Paul Blom, PhD student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, this question opens up a discussion on health, representation, art, human connection and so much more. On October 2nd, Blom … Read more

Three HHIVE members/alumni have been awarded Article of the Year by the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) for 2019! Jennifer Edwell, Sarah Singer, and Jordynn Jack won this award for their article titled “Healing Arts: … Read more

HHVIE alumnae, Maebelle Mathew, Akhila Boyina, were featured on the UNC website this month! Their Dance and Diabetes study, which they conducted under the direction of HHIVE Founding Director Dr. Jordynn Jack and with the help of peers Destiny Ho, … Read more

Manisha Mishra is a former HHIVE member and UNC student who graduated in 2018. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology and in medical humanities, with a minor in chemistry before moving to Tennessee this year to pursue a … Read more

Hui Xu, an associate professor at China Medical University of Shenyang, was once a visiting scholar of UNC’s Health Humanities department. Though she had already obtained a Master’s degree in British and American Literature from Northeastern University of China, Xu … Read more