The Program in Narrative Medicine stands in solidarity and sorrow with the people of Haiti in this time of humanitarian disaster.
We also wish to acknowledge and support Michael Seyffert, M.D., a Narrative Medicine Masters student and flight surgeon in the Air Force Reserves, who has been called up to deploy to Haiti. Our thoughts are with him and his fellow reservists as they provide hands on support to those in need. |
For updates and further information on responsible agencies accepting donations, please visit the CU homepage. Agencies we are donating to include: Doctors without Borders (MSF), and Physicians for Social Responsibility. As a faculty which honors the central role of narrative in health care, we feel this is also a time to listen to the voices of Haiti's storytellers. Here is a link to a piece by Edwidge Danticat published in The New Yorker the week of January 26, 2010: |
Master of Science in Narrative Medicine Columbia University launched a new Master of Science in Narrative Medicine in fall of 2009. Proud to be the first degree program of its kind, this important educational advance improves the quality of patient care and contributes to the healing of our ailing health care system itself. The program was named #1 of the "New Master's of the Universe" by the New York Times. Click here to read the official program announcement and go to www.ce.columbia.edu/ narrativemedicine to learn more about program of study, courses, faculty, and admissions. For further information, contact Program Director Marsha Hurst at mh812@columbia.edu or call Continuing Education 212-854-9699. |
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Applications invited for NIH/Narrative Medicine Summer Research Fellowship The Summer Research Fellowships in Narrative Medicine are awarded to current Columbia P&S students for research in topics related to narrative medicine and social medicine. Stipends of $3,500 are provided through the NIH K07 Award on social science and behavioral science in medicine in partnership with the Program in Narrative Medicine. For more information, click here. |
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Request for Proposals: Writing Workshop Grants The Program in Narrative Medicine invites applications for grants of up to $5000 for clinical divisions of CUMC who wish to engage in ongoing writing workshops in clinical settings and to study the outcomes of the effort. These workshops should be multi-disciplinary, team-building groups, made up of clinicians from all corners of a division’s staff. To find out more about this initiative, click here. |
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Narrative Medicine Rounds, first Wednesday of each month from September to June at 5-7:00 pm in Faculty Club of CUMC. 446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue) New York, NY 10032.
March 3, 2010
Mothers for Sale: The Women of Kolkata’s Sex Trade Anti-domestic violence activist and faculty at NYU Law School, Shamita Das Dasgupta reads from her book Mothers for Sale, which is based on hundreds of interviews of women and children involved in the sex trade in Kolkata, India. This “urgently needed book” focuses on motherhood, sex work, and human rights in national and international contexts. A founder of the pioneering South Asian American anti-domestic violence organization, Manavi, Dasgupta will draw from her work in feminist movements in the U.S. and India. She will also discuss her latest project, a translation of the iconic Our Bodies, Ourselves for West Bengal, India. |
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Literature@Work/The Robert Braham Seminar Literature@Work is a CUMC graduate-level literature seminar that meets on the first and third Wednesdays of each month from noon to 1 pm (PH 9-East, Room 105). March 3, 2010: Marcel Proust, The Captive: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 |
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Narrative Medicine Workshops
The Program in Narrative Medicine offers intensive small group three-day workshops for health care professionals and literary scholars engaged in narrative medicine practice. Our next workshop will be held at Columbia University on March 26-28, 2010. If you are interested in attending our March workshop, please click on the link above for full information about the program and for the link to registration. We thank you for your interest in our program and for making it such a wonderful success. If you need further information or to be placed on the waiting list for future workshops kindly get in contact with me either by phone or email. Craig Irvine 212-304-7213 ci44@columbia.edu |
