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Health Humanities Caucus | MLAHealth humanities is an interdisciplinary field that includes, but is not limited to, narrative medicine, history of medicine, culture studies, ethics, graphic medicine, the arts, and social science.
This group gives members a chance to connect and collaborate with like-minded librarians digitally throughout the year and formally at MLA. As recognition of the value of medical humanities grows within medical education and practice, the roles for librarians are expected to grow, and so shall membership for this group. -
MLA Reads | AAMLAMLA Reads is a virtual book discussion group focused on discussing books on DEI topics. By making our libraries more inclusive, we can better serve all of our users. This book club is an opportunity to learn how you can increase inclusivity and equity in both your workplace and your personal life.
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Getting Started Guide Part 1: Select Activities | AAMC FRAHMEThe guide is a resource within the AAMC's Fundamental Role of Arts and Humanities in Medical Education (FRAHME). Activities were selected based on ability to conduct at low cost with any group of learners, regardless of developmental stage or specialty.
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Getting Started Guide Part 2: Nuts and Bolts | AAMC FRAHMEThe guide is a resource within the AAMC's Fundamental Role of Arts and Humanities in Medical Education (FRAHME). Continuing from Part 1, Part 2 includes tips on how to create partnerships with cultural institutions, how to choose arts and humanities material, and how you can join conversations about arts and humanities in medical education.
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The Health Humanities ConsortiumPromotes health humanities scholarship, education, and practices that focus on intersections among the humanities, arts and social sciences and health, illness, and healthcare.
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The HealthHum Listserve | Health Humanities ConsortiumThe Health Humanities Consortium LLC promotes health humanities scholarship, education, and practices that focus on intersections among the humanities, arts and social sciences in health, illness, and healthcare.
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Graphic MedicineGraphic Medicine is a field that explores and supports the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare. We are a community of academics, health carers, authors, artists, and fans of comics. To learn more about Graphic Medicine, explore this site and check out the Graphic Medicine Manifesto.
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Humanities in Healthcare NewsletterThe Gold Foundation and NYU Langone Health’s Division of Medical Humanities have partner a monthly compilation of articles, events, and opportunities related to the arts and humanities in healthcare.
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Intersections in Healing: Academic Libraries and the Health Humanities
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Healthcare professionals and health science librarians need to know more than research practices and clinical knowledge to become transformational individuals and leaders in their field. Empathy and compassion; appreciation for the various social and cultural contexts of health, care, and illness; and utilizing the contributions the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences can add depth and dimension to their work. While librarians are not usually the healthcare professionals themselves, they serve an important role in the development of healthcare professionals through their work in educational and/or healthcare settings, helping train others in the goals of the curriculum and in lifelong learning-related habits of mind. This book offers librarians an opportunity to learn about and develop approaches to the health humanities, for their benefit and the benefit of their constituents and stakeholders, as well as for impacting the future health care professionals of our global community. In addition to foundational contents on the history of the health humanities, this book approaches the health humanities from a wealth of angles including archives and special collections, collection development, privacy, biases, empathy, skills development through writing and programming engagement, and through consideration of special populations and more. Beyond essential health humanities grounding and topical perspectives, this book shares valuable pedagogical and instructional approaches and outreach strategies for bringing librarians into conversation with campus departments, curricular pathways, instructors' goals, and learners' needs. These modifiable, adaptable techniques will allow readers to develop the confidence and tools they need to bring the health humanities to their institutions, and will help the perspectives and skillsets of the health humanities flourish among the next generation of health care professionals.
ISBN: 9781538171325Publication Date: 2024-05-25 -
Student Wellness and Academic Libraries: Case Studies and Activities for Promoting Health and Success
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Postsecondary institutions are high stress environments for many students: Undergraduates may be living on their own for the first time, coping with demanding academic requirements, and experimenting with drugs, alcohol, and new social relationships and identities. Advanced degree students tend to have a high level of job insecurity and are also more likely than other students to be juggling family obligations on top of their studies, research, and teaching. Mental health disorders have their peak onset during the university and college years, and severe anxiety is on the rise.
Many university libraries across North America are expanding their service offerings to include student wellness initiatives or are making their space available to other campus entities to provide wellness support as mental health issues and awareness of mental health challenges on campus have increased. Student Wellness and Academic Libraries gathers multiple perspectives on wellness programming and discussions of current activities, with case studies, commentary, and research on student wellness initiatives in academic libraries. Some chapters explore one initiative in detail, and others look at a variety of activities and how they fit within a strategy; some focus on a particular aspect of wellness, and others on a particular at-risk group.
Academic libraries have always promoted student success through teaching and research support and through instruction in information literacy, a skill that is understood to be useful not just for academic success but also for life success. For college and university students, learning to live well and attend to their mental health are life skills they can and should develop during this time, and academic libraries are increasingly playing a role in this part of the student experience. Student Wellness and Academic Libraries can help those charged with leading these efforts gain valuable insight into ideas and directions the library can take in pursuit of that goal.
ISBN: 9780838948644Publication Date: 2020-11-20
Health Humanities
Foundational resources for the health humanities.
Librarian
Karina Kletscher, MLIS, AHIP
She/Her/Hers
Contact:
Health Sciences Library - Phoenix
3110 N Central Ave
Suite 220
Phoenix, AZ 85012
3110 N Central Ave
Suite 220
Phoenix, AZ 85012
602.812.4610
Website
Librarian Resources
Are you a health sciences librarian looking to build your skills and knowledge to better serve health humanities programs or initiatives? Welcome to this informal resource, think of it like a friendly syllabus, based on resources that have been helpful, personally, in building capacities specific to health sciences learners and professionals.
