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The Medical Humanities Podcast explores the stories, ethics, and experiences that connect clinical medicine to the arts. From the history of medicine to bioethics and gender, hosts Dr. Sabina Dosani (Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities) and paediatrician Dr. Sarah Ahmed speak with writers, artists, and scholars redefining our understanding of health. Join us as we pull at the threads that tie us together and investigate the ones that unravel. Brought to you by the BMJ and the Institute of Medical Ethics. Medical Humanities - mh.bmj.com - is an international journal from the BMJ Group and ...

Humanity Rx is a podcast exploring the human side of healthcare through powerful stories and honest conversations. From patients to providers, Humanity Rx dives into the real-life experiences that shape care by reconnecting medicine with meaning, one story at a time.

This podcast is part of the project 'Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health', a series of free online events where scholars, health professionals, and the public discuss how arts and humanities can inform healthcare. Hosted by the University of Glasgow, these conversations seek to develop meaningful dialogue and connection between humanities and medicine. Each one of these events will form the basis of an episode of the podcast. The project is a joint initiative by Prof Ian Sabroe (University of Sheffield) and Dr Dieter Declercq (University of Glasgow).

This podcast will involve discussions with researchers in the Heart of the Matter project - an interdisciplinary project that aims to deepen our understanding of the heart and improve human wellbeing through fostering dialogue and innovation across the fields of health, medicine, engineering, philosophy, literary studies and the humanities. The aim of the Heart of the Matter is to pull together holistic bodily, social, cultural, medical, technical and lived experiences of cardiac health and concerns.

Conversations about medicine, humanity, healthcare education, ethics, philosophy and so much more. Ethos is a platform for storytelling and dialogue at the intersection of narrative medicine, medical humanities, ethics, and law. We explore the human side of healthcare, and are built in collaboration with the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit (MEHU) at HKUMed. Visit our website at www.ethos.hku.hk for more.

In The End of Epidemics, leading public health authority Dr Jonathan D. Quick tells the stories of the heroes, past and present, who’ve succeeded in their fights to stop the spread of illness and death. He explains the science and the politics of combating epidemics. And he provides a detailed seven-part plan showing exactly how world leaders, health professionals, the business community, media and ordinary citizens can work together to prevent epidemics, saving millions of lives.

Since 2010 it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter of days at an accessible cost for many millions of people. Along with this technological breakthrough there has emerged a movement to use this information to help prospective parents "eliminate preventable genetic disease." As the prospect of systematically excluding the appearance of unwanted mutations in our children comes within reach, David B. Goldstein examines the possible consequences from these types of choices.

What was it like at the epicenter, inside the health system that cared for more COVID-19 patients than any other in the United States? Leading Through a Pandemic: The Inside Story of Lessons Learned about Innovation, Leadership, and Humanity During the COVID-19 Crisis takes listeners inside Northwell Health, New York's largest health system. From the C-suite to the front lines, the book reports on groundwork that positioned Northwell as uniquely prepared for the pandemic.