Intima 2024 | ACADEMIC
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Surrounded by Text: An exploration of a life narrative through pain and cancer | Richard Hovey | SPRING 2024
An exploration of hermeneutics as a dynamic research approach in health sciences, emphasizing its role in interpreting reflections and narratives to gain insight into complex human experiences.
COVID-19 PORTRAIT: Isolation, Intimacy, and Elegy During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Ariela Freedman | SPRING 2023
During the COVID-19 healthcare crisis, the “portrait” as an expressive narrative form utilized new ways “to record the precarious and isolated lives of its subjects and to memorialize and individuate the mass death event of the pandemic.”
A Feasibility Study of Narrative Medicine Intervention in an Internal Medicine Residency Program | Faiz Jiwani, Rebecca Rosero, Deepa Dongarwar, Larry Laufman, R. Michelle Schmidt | FALL 2022
Medical Student as Playwright: Dramatizing Imelda | Emily Beckman and Angeline Larimer | FALL 2022
Dramatizing empathy and forging community is unveiled in a playwriting approach to narrative medicine.
Self-Administered, Hypodermically, Subcutaneously, or Intravenously: Exploring the Cocaine Addiction of Sherlock Holmes | Stephanie Haun | FALL 2022
In the many stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, there are eight where he touches on the fabled detective’s use of the drug and reflects on the way society at the time looked upon it.
A Narrative Reconsidered: The Psychoanalytic Method in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz | Robert C. Abrams | SPRING 2022
Trauma and narrative inscribe one another in this analysis of the late German writer’s provocative work about memory, history and the self.
Experiences from the Front Line: Stories of Nurses During COVID-19 | Michael Evans, William Doan, Kiernan Riley, Kalei Kowalchik and Logan DeSanto | SPRING 2022
Narrating to and with one another in story circles, nurses tell their personal and professional tales of persistence and improvisation from the front lines of COVID-19.
When ‘Women’s Health’ is Not Inclusive Enough: In Search of Reproductive Justice | Anna Swygert, Michelle Nall, Isabel Cecilia Walker, Kelly Domina Starr Likos and Laura Guyer | FALL 2021
Narratives drive these authors toward a more inclusive, just vision of women’s health.
Truth, Reconciliation and Racial Unification in America: Using Michael White’s Narrative Practices in Facilitation Conversations about Race | Olamide Adejumo | FALL 2021
Forging a path forward, discover ways narrative medicine practices can extend beyond clinical encounters to prompt societal healing, reconciliation, and racial unification.
On Discovering the Applications of Narrative Medicine: An Autoethnography | Rolando Rubalcava | SPRING 2021
Beyond the clinical context, this piece extends narrative medicine’s applications.
“Talk to me like I was a person you loved” : Including Patients’ Perspectives in Cinemeducation | Ewan Bowlby | SPRING 2021
Narrative, healthcare, and entertainment collide in this analysis of patients’ responses to cinemeducation.
Re-embodying Medicine: William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Attention | Britta Gustavson | SPRING 2021
Medicine is much more than the technological and mechanistic advances; William Carlos Williams’ poetry and practices demonstrate a physician attuned to embodied patient experiences.
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Creating Space for Narratives in Breakdown to Speak: Death, Liminality, and An Ethical Re-Imagining of Narrative Medicine | Rachel Reichenbach | FALL 2020
The in betwixt and in-between liminal state of terminal illness recasts narrative medicine as relational space to interrogate patient stories invoking the inequities laid bare in a global pandemic and racial injustice.
“Even from Afar, To You So Close”: Meditations on Narrative Medicine Virtual Group Sessions in Italian during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Carly Slater and Natalia Romano Spica with Guenda Bernegger, Christian Delorenzo, Joseph Eveld, Cindy Smalletz and Nicoletta Suter | FALL 2020
In response to the quarantine imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, international groups formed to read, reflect and connect with each other.
Narrative in Times of Transition: A Novel Curriculum During COVID-19 | Elizabeth Lahti, Taylor N. Anderson, Alexandria L. Dyer, Megan M. Emad, Grace I. Judd, Brett Lewis, Douglas Rice, Alison Schlueter, and Taylor Vega | FALL 2020
Third-year medical students and clinicians make sense of the pandemic, their medical training and their own states of being through critical thinking, close reading and creative writing.
Temporality, Reader Recognition and Literary Consolation: A Reading of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air with Narrative Medicine | Marie-Elisabeth Lei Holm | FALL 2020
Blending textual analysis and narrative medicine literature, the memoir of Paul Kalanithi is both honored and extended to reach into narrative medicine offering an illustration of physician turned patient seeking the narrative desire of recognition.
The Trauma Narrative as a Patient-Centered Empowerment Tool | Michael Lowery Wilson | FALL 2020
A look into how "uninterrupted patient narratives provide us with a symphony of data whose meaning can be orchestrated into understanding by bridging historical references into experience and suffering."