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 Humanities Journal of UNC Chapel Hill will host an Open Mic Night on November 18th at 5:30pm in Graham Memorial, Room 039 to celebrate the launch of its inaugural issue, featuring academic and creative work by UNC undergraduate, graduate, and … Read more
Literature, Medicine, and Culture Affiliated Faculty, Dr. Mara Buchbinder, Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Anthropology, Dr. Michele Rivkin-Fish, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Dr. Rebecca L. Walker, Associate Professor Social Medicine and Philosophy, have edited a new volume entitled Understanding Health Inequalities … Read more
On Friday, October 14, 2016, Jane Thrailkill, HHIVE Lab co-director, visited the Duke Health Humanities Lab to deliver a talk entitled “Empathetics, Inc.” A recording of the talk is now available on YouTube Thrailkill suggests that efforts to put empathy to … 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
