From the Editor.- To Be or Not: A Brief History of the Health Humanities Consortium.- Developing New Academic Programs in the Medical/Health Humanities: A Toolkit to Support Continued Growth.- Reflective Writing about Near-Peer Blogs: A Novel Method for Introducing the Medical Humanities in Premedical Education.- “Now I know how to not repeat history”: Teaching and Learning Through a Pandemic with the Medical Humanities.- Medical Education for What?: Neoliberal Fascism Versus Social Justice.- Medical Students’ Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation.- Reconsidering Empathy: An Interpersonal Approach and Participatory Arts in the Medical Humanities.- Patient Co-Participation in Narrative Medicine Curricula as a Means of Engaging Patients as Partners in Healthcare: A Pilot Study Involving Medical Students and Patients Living with HIV.- A Value-Added Health Systems Science Intervention Based onMy Life, My Story for Patients Living with HIV and Medical Students: Translating Narrative Medicine from Classroom to Clinic.- Screenplays and Screenwriting as an Innovative Teaching Tool in Medical Ethics Education.- Confronting the Hidden Curriculum: A Four-Year Integrated Course in Ethics and Professionalism Grounded in Virtue Ethics.- The Health Benefits of Autobiographical Writing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.- Going Beyond the Data: Using Testimonies to Humanize Pedagogy on Black Health.- Voices from the Front Lines: An Analysis of Physicians’ Reflective Narratives about Flaws with the ‘System’.- Investigating the Meaning of Patient Ownership: An Exploratory Study of a Commonly Used Phrase within an Internal Medicine Department.- “It just went wrong, as bodies are prone to do”: Graphic Medicine and the Trauma of Miscarriage.- Doctored Images: Enacting “Pain-Work” in John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man (1967).- Leonardo DaVinci’s Archival of the Dermatologic Condition.- A Breast Cancer Experience Re-narrated: The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.- Mass Effect – 1st Place.- Water - 2nd Place.- Satsuma - 3rd Place.

This book covers a brief history of the Health Humanities Consortium and contains a toolkit for those academic leaders determined to launch inter- and multi-disciplinary health humanities programs in their own colleges and universities. It offers remarkable discussions and descriptions of pedagogical practices from undergraduate programs through medical education and resident training; philosophical and political analyses of structural injustices and clinical biases; and insightful and informative analyses of imaginative work such as comics, literary texts, and paintings.Previously published in Journal of Medical Humanities Volume 42, issue 4, December 2021Chapters “Reflective Writing about Near-Peer Blogs: A Novel Method for Introducing the Medical Humanities in Premedical Education”, “Medical Students’ Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation”, “Reconsidering Empathy: An Interpersonal Approach and Participatory Arts in the Medical Humanities” and “The Health Benefits of Autobiographical Writing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Offers a history of the field of medical humanities Includes a toolkit to launch academic medical humanities programs Relevant for scholars in philosophy, art, literature and medicine interested in medical humanities