Narrative in Healthcare Humanities

Healthcare Humanities is an interdisciplinary endeavour, drawing on the strength of scholarship in literature, film, the visual arts, music, ethics , philosophy and history. The goal of our Program is to promote and deepen exchanges among colleagues from all clinical and humanities disciplines . This will broaden the healer’s cultural experience while underscoring  the vital contributions of imagination  and creativity  to both  caregiving and academic practice.  Scholars in narrative theory, the arts , humanities and other “medicine watchers” will be enriched by a direct, ongoing dialogue with those working in healthcare settings and will be invited to help shape the discourse around experiences of health , illness and social justice in our community.

We publish an award-winning literary review, ARS MEDICA For information on subscribing/submitting works go to: www.ars-medica.ca

The Program In Narrative and Healthcare Humanities is based in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)

For more information, please contact:

Allan Peterkin, MD
apeterkin@mtsinai.on.ca
telephone: 416-586-4800 ext 3204