(Postponed) Mixed Media & Medicine – this month 🗓

In honour of International Women’s Day, Black History Month & National Poetry Month

We invite faculty, students, residents, fellows, one and all to the next gathering of Mixed Media & Medicine at a zoom near you on March 24th:

         What is your favorite piece of writing and why?  

It might be a poem, a passage from a novel, an extract from a memoir, a greeting card (please don’t, lol), a rousing verse/chorus, a piece of graffiti you saw on the subway: whatever it is, please bring a piece something that inspires you on March 24th at 6:30pm.

We are not big on rules but in the interest of respect for all present we do ask the following: 

  1. No long passages: keep them at 2-3 minutes if possible. We would prefer you bring two or three brief ones rather than one long one; that way most people get to share
  2. Be prepared to discuss why this inspires you: when did you first come across it? Who were you with? Why does it speak to you? What do you know about how it was made?
  3. If there is a visual to help the share by all means, we are expert screen-sharers now
  4. No violence, vulgarity or overt sexuality: this is not an invitation to make people uncomfortable, or to air political agendas.. While we are not in the business of censorship, we will immediately shut down & remove inappropriate material and those responsible.
  5. As always, be respectful; all choices and reasons for such are valid and welcome.
  6. If you see a neighbour struggling, jump in and help out

Hi There,

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Mar 24, 2022 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcuihrjwtE9AHX9BQMYoY5pu-lBZVyA9c  

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Why not register for the rest of the year and add us to your calendar?

See you on a screen sometime soon!

Conor & Jane, MMM

History of Medicine Event – June 17 (Toronto Western Hospital) 🗓

I’m excited to announce an upcoming history of medicine event, organized by the Health History Interest Group in collaboration with the Art of Medicine program within the HoPingKong Centre, UHN.

Through a shared passion for the history of medicine and medical humanities, the Health History Interest Group was formed in 2020 by UHN-MSH Clinical Assistant Dan Petrescu and University of Toronto trainees Imaan Kherani (2T3) and Ariel Gershon (R2 Anatomic Path.).  The group aims to foster mentorship, scholarship, and collaboration in the medical humanities across Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Toronto and beyond.

Recently, a number of medical students presented oral abstracts at the University of Calgary History of Medicine Days Conference.  Please join us as they share their work with peers and faculty:

History of Medicine Presentations

Thursday June 17th @ 7pm

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87882223967

Meeting ID: 878 8222 3967

See attached for more details:  [History of Medicine Event_June2021]

Thanks,

Sarah

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Sarah Meilach
Administrator
The HoPingKong Centre – CEEP
Toronto Western Hospital – UHN
399 Bathurst Street, EW 8-427B
Toronto ON, M5T 2S8
(T) 416-603-5800 x 2936 (F) 416-603-6495
www.TheHoPingKongCentre.com

Race, Medicine and Healthcare: Indian Hospitals in 20th Century Canada 🗓

All interested students, faculty, and staff are invited to the next talk in the Hannah History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Speaker Series, sponsored by the Hannah Unit in the History of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences. Please find a poster attached.

Speaker:   Dr. Maureen Lux, Department of History, Brock University 

Respondent:  Dr. Amy Montour, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University

Title: “Race, Medicine and Healthcare: Indian Hospitals in 20th Century Canada”

Date:  March 24, 2021

Time of Talk:  1:30 – 3:00pm

Please register for the lecture on zoom using the following link:

https://mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvcuytrDorGtalpDsTblCFWjbJBnN_r9ZW 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

Talk Description: As Canada embarked on national healthcare programs such as Medicare it also maintained a system of racially segregated hospitals for Indigenous people.  Poorly funded and badly managed, ‘Indian hospitals’ isolated Indigenous people from modern care.  This history exposes some of the twentieth-century roots of racism in healthcare.

Biographies:

Dr. Maureen Lux: Dr. Lux is Professor of History at Brock University.  Her award-winning publications explore the impact of colonization on the health of Indigenous peoples and the role of medicine and the state in maintaining health disparities.  Her latest book with co-author Erika Dyck is Challenging Choices: Canada’s Population Control in the 1970s (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).

Dr. Amy Montour:  Dr. Montour is a Haudenosaunee woman from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She has completed Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Medicine degrees at McMaster University. Amy works clinically as a palliative care physician and as an advocate for Indigenous health. In addition, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Site Director for the Grand Erie Six Nations Family Medicine Residency Site, McMaster University.

This talk is co-sponsored by the following: 

  • Hannah History of Medicine Unit
  • Department of Family Medicine
  • Indigenous Health Learning Lodge Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Department of Religious Studies
  • Masters of Public Health
  • Bachelor of Health Science Program (Honours)
  • Department of Anthropology

The History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Speaker Series is made possible by an endowment from Associated Medical Services (AMS).

A poster for this talk is attached here.

CAHH Special General Meeting and Inaugural Virtual Rounds,1 October 2020 🗓

For members of the Canadian Association for Health Humanities

Membership info at  : https://www.cahh.ca/new-products/annual-membership :

Good afternoon to all,

I hope this finds you and yours well at a singular time, to say the least. As CAHH members from 2018-2019, I wanted to notify you of two events coming up on  Thursday, 1 October 2020: the CAHH Special General Meeting (SGM) and our inaugural Virtual Rounds (to be held by Zoom). Details are below for each, but I wanted to note that the SGM will be for members only. If you have not yet renewed your membership, please do so at https://www.cahh.ca/new-products/annual-membership as we’d love to have you there!

If you have already renewed your membership for this year, feel free to disregard that and my apologies for the extra e-mail. Please see details of the sessions below, and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out!

Brett Schrewe (CAHH Secretary-Communications Officer)

On behalf of the CAHH Executive and Advisory Council

CAHH Special General Meeting (SGM)

  • 14h30-15h30 (PDT)
  • 15h30-16h30 (MDT)
  • 16h30-17h30 (CDT)
  • 17h30-18h30 (EDT)
  • 18h30-19h30 (ADT)
  • 19h00-20h00 (NDT)

The Zoom link will be sent to CAHH members by separate e-mail in the days to come! The SGM Agenda and associated documents will be available on the CAHH website prior to the SGM (www.cahh.ca).

CAHH Virtual Rounds

This event is open to the general public, is co-hosted by the University of Alabama’s Art of Medicine Rounds, and will be held immediately following the SGM as follows:

  • 15h30-17h30 (PDT)
  • 16h30-18h30 (MDT)
  • 17h30-19h30 (CDT)
  • 18h30-20h30 (EDT)
  • 19h30-21h30 (ADT)
  • 20h00-22h00 (NDT)

The Zoom link will be available in the coming days.

We are ecstatic to feature the following presenters!

  • Malika Sharma, MD, MEd, FRCPC (Toronto, Ontario), “Whose Stories, Whose Voices: Troubling Humanism in Medicine”
  • Tracy Moniz, PhD (Halifax, Nova Scotia), “How and why are the arts and humanities used in medical education? A scoping review of the literature”

Poetry presented by

  • Don Colburn MA, MFA (Oregon, USA)
  • Jack Coulehan MD, MPH (New York, USA)

COVID & Ethics Series: links to videos of 4 webinars

From Dr Robert Klitzman,

Joseph Mailman School of Public Health

Four  online lectures on Bioethics and Covid 19 in the US

Free Lecture Series: Intersections of Race, Class, and Health

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am delighted to share details about a virtual lecture series that I have organized over this new academic year.  All of the presentations are open and free, but there is a separate rsvp link for each.  I will send along that information as we move through time and space.

Please share with others, especially your students.

Thanks,

Dr. Tess Jones

SAVE THE DATES for this year-long lecture series on Mondays at noon.

RSVP for our first presentation by Dr. Damon Tweedy, MD on October 19th.

Download flyer>>

COVID AND THE ARTS/HUMANITIES-PART TWO

Short Pieces for Long Days:

A SARS-Cov-2 Medical Humanities Reader

Articles, essays and art

Curated by:  David Elkin, MD, MSL from UCSF

davidelkin@comcast.net

(Selections do not represent the views of SFGH or UCSF)

Historical Perspectives

Bugs and people: when epidemics change history:

https://hekint.org/2018/03/15/bugs-people-epidemics-change-history/?highlight=epidemic

Samuel Pepys, Plague of 1665:

 https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/viral-news

Plague cure link to contemporary drink:

The 1700s Plague Cure That Inspired an Uncannily Contemporary Cocktail

Cholera epidemic in London, Steven Johnson telling the story of John Snow. Ghost Map: How the “ghost map” helped end a killer disease

Semmelweis and the power of hand-washing:

https://theconversation.com/ignaz-semmelweis-the-doctor-who-discovered-the-disease-fighting-power-of-hand-washing-in-1847-135528?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2014%202020%20-%201593215257&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2014%202020%20-%201593215257+Version+A+CID_e3bdee1a91f54bfced32288468a1a18c&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=Ignaz%20Semmelweis%20the%20doctor%20who%20discovered%20the%20disease-fighting%20power%20of%20hand-washing%20in%201847

Origins of the term “quarantine,” Mary Mallon (“Typhoid Mary”) (Science Diction podcast):

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/science-diction/articles/science-diction-quarantine?utm_source=Science+Diction&utm_campaign=f669ee4b05-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_09_05_58_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_802987ac5b-f669ee4b05-54764673

Short film: 1918 influenza epidemic (Cambridge University):
Spanish Flu: a warning from history

Impacts of 1918 Pandemic on Public Health, Healthcare System Organization, Health Policies: How the 1918 Flu Pandemic Revolutionized Public Health | History

The 1918 flu pandemic and WWI: Competing memories:

Katherine Anne Porter and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

Historical perspectives on viral vaccine development (including comparisons of influenza, zika, ebola, etc) How to Stop a Lethal Virus | Science

What Can Images of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Teach Us About COVID-19?

Images from the National Archives Catalog show striking parallels to today’s crisis, from masks to emergency hospitals.

https://hyperallergic.com/552295/1918-influenza-pandemic-covid-19/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=D040820&utm_content=D040820+CID_770d615555bdab36172560f7bad8ec8e&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=What%20Can%20Images%20of%20the%201918%20Influenza%20Pandemic%20Teach%20Us%20About%20COVID-19

Mary Mallon (“Typhoid Mary”) revisited

Awful Moments In Quarantine History: Remember Typhoid Mary?

How Infectious Disease Defined the American Bathroom:

The War Against Coronavirus Comes to the Bathroom

HIV, SARS-CoV-2 and San Francisco: Two epidemics: https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/How-San-Francisco-s-battle-with-HIV-AIDS-shaped-15179365.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headlines&utm_campaign=sfc_morningfix&sid=53bb17669dbcd4560200028a

First deaths from Covid-19 in the US:

The first 1,000: Who the U.S.’s first victims were and what we’ve learned

Challenges facing journalists as they recognize they are writing a rough draft of history:

https://theconversation.com/journalists-are-recognizing-theyre-writing-a-rough-draft-of-history-and-cant-say-definitively-thats-the-way-it-is-135875?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2014%202020%20-%201593215257&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2014%202020%20-%201593215257+Version+A+CID_e3bdee1a91f54bfced32288468a1a18c&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=Writing%20the%20rough%20draft%20of%20coronavirus%20history

Literature 

NYReview of Books Pandemic journal: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/04/06/pandemic-journal-april-6-12/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Publishers%20Letter%2047&utm_content=Publishers%20Letter%2047+CID_2a3692d1ede5dc3ac9a912033cf5d6ee&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Pandemic%20Journal

The role of the humanities (Netscape: “Yes, There Is a Role for Poetry and Fiction in a Pandemic” Robert Harrington and Abraham Verghese): https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/927624#vp_1

Writers (Atwood and St. John) who described pandemics in fiction:

Culture – The plague writers who predicted today

The Exquisite Pain of Reading in Quarantine:

Quarantine Book Clubs Reminded Me to Read

Poetry

Isolation and Stress

Isolation and stress: How will humans, by nature social animals, fare when isolated?

Psychology: An astronaut’s guide to surviving isolation

An astronaut’s guide to surviving isolation

Psychology: Astronaut, antarctic explorers and climbers on isolation

Living an isolated life: Astronauts, Antarctic doctors and climbers share their advice

This American Life Podcast, Episode 698, The Test: Act 1: The Inside Game The Test

“Welcome to Seclusion” by Sergio Benvenuto Published in Italian on Antinomie:

https://antinomie.it/index.php/2020/03/05/benvenuto-in-clausura/)

Navigating relationships in isolation:

How to maintain relationships in self-isolation

Social Issues/Impact

Psychological tips for maintaining social relationships during lockdown:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2240487-psychology-tips-for-maintaining-social-relationships-during-lockdown/?utm_source=NSDAY&utm_campaign=adbf6d03c7-NSDAY_150420&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1254aaab7a-adbf6d03c7-373962775#

Hidden suffering of coronavirus: Stigma, blaming, shaming:

 Hidden suffering of coronavirus: Stigma, blaming, shaming

The Dangerous History of Immunoprivilege

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/opinion/coronavirus-immunity-passports.html?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=988197462&action=click&module=moreIn&pgtype=Article&region=Footer

Fear among the disabled:

People With Disabilities Worry They Won’t Get Treatment

Changing conceptions of disability and the pandemic:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterslatin/2020/04/07/pandemic-is-a-disability-for-all/#6e7dd73c240d

Evolving social mores: what to do when someone violates social distancing:

Standing Too Close. Not Covering Coughs. If Someone Is Violating Social Distancing Rules, What Do You Do?

German zoo may have to feed animals to each otherHow do morgues and pathologists handle the surge in dead bodies:

https://theconversation.com/overloaded-morgues-mass-graves-and-infectious-remains-how-forensic-pathologists-handle-the-coronavirus-dead-135275?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly%20science%20and%20research%20newsletter%2041520&utm_content=Weekly%20science%20and%20research%20newsletter%2041520+CID_0630bc5dcded75675053bced5ffe6a76&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=Overloaded%20morgues%20mass%20graves%20and%20infectious%20remains%20How%20forensic%20pathologists%20handle%20the%20coronavirus%20dead

Health Care Inequity in COVID-19 infection and mortality

Higher death rate from Covid-19 in African Americans:

 ‘It’s a racial justice issue’: Black Americans are dying in greater numbers from Covid-19

and The Pandemic Will Cleave America in Two

Social inequity and the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S.:

https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-covid19-black-americans-impact.html

and

‘It’s a racial justice issue’: Black Americans are dying in greater numbers from Covid-19

and

Racial Bias Showing Up In Coronavirus Testing And Treatment : Shots – Health News

and

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-is-hitting-black-and-poor-communities-the-hardest-underscoring-fault-lines-in-access-and-care-for-those-on-margins-135615?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%209%202020%20-%201589015218&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%209%202020%20-%201589015218+Version+A+CID_38b90393eca1eaec6b97525ff22c2a30&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=COVID-19%20is%20hitting%20black%20and%20poor%20communities%20the%20hardest%20underscoring%20fault%20lines%20in%20access%20and%20care%20for%20those%20on%20margins

and:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisafitzpatrick/2020/04/08/coronavirus-has-exposed-the-world-to-health-disparities-in-black-america-so-what-now/#63c15b3621ca

Racism, poverty and the high incidence of Covid-19 in Detroit:

How racism and poverty made Detroit a new coronavirus hot spot

Covid-19 and the state of health care in the US:

Coronavirus is revealing how broken America’s economy really is

Pollution drops during lockdown:

‘It’s positively alpine!’: Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls

The Geography of Coronavirus:

What We Know About Density and Covid-19’s Spread

A lot of people don’t know they should stay home:

https://www.wired.com/story/a-lot-of-people-dont-even-know-they-should-stay-home/?bxid=5c5b21f92ddf9c2e3579c781&cndid=17027253&esrc=AUTO_PRINT&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_041220&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list2_p2

Technology will save us. Or will it?

Analysis | The Technology 202: There are a lot of questions about Google and Apple’s big coronavirus effort

When will the economy turn around? The coronavirus recession, explained.

Privacy and surveillance:

https://theconversation.com/digital-surveillance-can-help-bring-the-coronavirus-pandemic-under-control-but-also-threatens-privacy-135151?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly%20science%20and%20research%20newsletter%2041520&utm_content=Weekly%20science%20and%20research%20newsletter%2041520+CID_0630bc5dcded75675053bced5ffe6a76&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=Digital%20surveillance%20can%20help%20bring%20the%20coronavirus%20pandemic%20under%20control%20%20but%20also%20threatens%20privacy

Mental Health Impact

Lockdowns, stress and domestic violence:

Global Lockdowns Resulting In ‘Horrifying Surge’ In Domestic Violence, U.N. Warns

Pandemics and serious mental illness:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2764227?utm_campaign=articlePDF%26utm_medium%3darticlePDFlink%26utm_source%3darticlePDF%26utm_content%3djamapsychiatry.2020.0894

The Arts

Picturing Disease:

Little Demons, Death And Biting Dogs: How We Picture Disease

Photography and the epidemic:

20 photographs of the week | Art and design

How do you make the case for art and artists during the pandemic?

In a Pandemic, How Do You Make the Case for an Art Emergency?

Covid-19: Street artists take on the pandemic:

Street Artists Take On Coronavirus Pandemic With Powerful, Poignant And Witty Pieces

More work from street artists:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/apr/06/coronavirus-street-art-in-pictures?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0FydFdlZWtseS0yMDA0MTA%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=ArtWeekly&CMP=artweekly_email

New Yorker cover: “After the shift”

Owen Smith’s “After the Shift”

Video: Ohio PSA about the effects of social distancing and flattening the curve:

https://digg.com/video/a-brilliantly-simple-psa-about-social-distancing-from-the-state-of-ohio

And how they filmed it:

Mousetrap PSA Nails Importance Of Social Distancing In The Snappiest Way

Art from past pandemics:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/t-magazine/art-coronavirus.html

Plague in art:

Plague in Art: 10 Paintings You Should Know in the Times of Coronavirus

Art re-enactments at home:

Instagram challenge sparks hilarious submission of painting reenactments

And:     https://www.sadanduseless.com/recreated-art/

And:   People are Recreating Classic Paintings as Hilarious Photos in Quarantine

Ending lockdown in Wuhan (photos):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/apr/08/wuhan-ends-coronavirus-lockdown-in-pictures?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0Nvcm9uYXZpcnVzVGhlV2Vla0V4cGxhaW5lZC0yMDA0MTA%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=CoronavirusTheWeekExplained&CMP=coronavirusweek_email

Lessons from Ebola: Health care providers pin photos of their face to their gown to connect with their patients:

A Photo Project Helps Mitigate Patient Loneliness During COVID-19 Pandemic

Children’s books, re-imagined:

‘Gruffalo stayed in the cave’: Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson’s coronavirus cartoons

Why the Covid-19 epidemic is so hard to model, explained in comics:

A Comic Strip Tour Of The Wild World Of Pandemic Modeling

Politics and Public Health

2017 piece wondering if America was ready for a pandemic:

Is America Ready for a Global Pandemic?

And it turns out we weren’t–a public health lesson for future generations:

Trump ignored coronavirus warnings from experts for months

More on the public health failure to contain SARS-CoV-2 during early 2020:

He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

The role of political leadership:

https://theconversation.com/three-reasons-why-jacinda-arderns-coronavirus-response-has-been-a-masterclass-in-crisis-leadership-135541?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2014%202020%20-%201593215257&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2014%202020%20-%201593215257+Version+A+CID_e3bdee1a91f54bfced32288468a1a18c&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=Three%20reasons%20why%20Jacinda%20Arderns%20coronavirus%20response%20has%20been%20a%20masterclass%20in%20crisis%20leadership

Reflections

New York Review of Books Pandemic Journal: Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Leslie Jamison on single parenting during the pandemic: ‘Since I Became Symptomatic’

Breaking up in a pandemic:

Getting Dumped During A Pandemic

Of dogs and people in the pandemic

Of dogs and their humans: Late life in a more-than-human world of the COVID-19 pandemic

Stephen King on why he’s sorry that you feel like you’re stuck in one of his horror novels:

Stephen King Is Sorry You Feel Like You’re Stuck In A Stephen King Novel

Tom Perrotta (author of The Leftovers) on epidemics, religion and meaning: Tom Perrotta on ‘The Leftovers’ and how we behave in times of fear and loss

Short video: A brief meditation on humanity, the environment, and the pandemic: https://youtu.be/f5on3AZWdik

The Wolves of Stanislav: An Improbably True Parable for the Pandemic Age by Paul Auster https://lithub.com/the-wolves-of-stanislav-an-improbably-true-parable-for-the-pandemic-age/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

The Nocturnists podcast:

‎The Nocturnists on Apple Podcasts

Video diary of a NYC EM physician:

Inside a New York ER where the hallways are filled with covid-19 patients | Voices from the Pandemic

Hospital Chaplains During the Coronavirus Pandemic:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/the-plight-of-a-hospital-chaplain?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_031420&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9d5a02ddf9c72dc1f3e5f&cndid=26443064&hasha=b099feec2a05003cc974d6936bfcc075&hashb=dbbe74a73e95fa88bee845e745ec3c72def430f5&hashc=ba7dac7b4e2f383f847685ec757cc1902b33d20f4cd7ca58f07a930015b05dcd&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Daily

Here in spirit: oral history of faith amid a pandemic:

https://www.wired.com/story/here-in-spirit-oral-history-of-faith-amid-pandemic/?bxid=5c5b21f92ddf9c2e3579c781&cndid=17027253&esrc=&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_BACKCHANNEL_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Backchannel_041220_TopClickers&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=WIR_TopClickers_EXCLUDE_Backchannel

Adapting to the new normal:

https://elladawson.com/2020/03/22/these-are-not-conditions-in-which-to-thrive/?mc_cid=ffdfbc31bc&mc_eid=7b1a58b0d5

The Road” Wakley Prize winner (Lancet): https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67892-0/fulltext

Parts of Idaho experienced an early surge in cases:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/coronavirus-covid-19-idaho-blaine-county-sun-valley?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WYM-04132020-DYNAMIC-A&utm_term=what_you_missed_A

Ethics and Professional Identity

NY Magazine on ethical choices with COVID-19 patients and possible PTSD in health care providers (moral distress): ACA Architect Ezekiel Emanuel on Coronavirus Triage Ethics

“Making the Call” Podcast with Zeke Emmanuel and Jonathan Moreno on COVID-19 and ethics: ‎Making the Call on Apple Podcasts

When your spouse works in the ED: open.https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/04/coronavirus-emergency-room-doctors-nurses-spouses-conversation.html?sid=5388f4efdd52b8e411013658&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=TheSlatest&utm_campaign=traffic

Emergency room physician loses  custody of her four year old due to Covid fears:

An ER doctor loses custody of daughter because of coronavirus fears

Professional identity: dealing with work/home balance (graphic art)

The bittersweet wait for coronavirus to bring its death and suffering

Malm, Heidi, Thomas May, Leslie P. Francis, Saad B. Omer, Daniel A. Salmon & Robert Hood.  “Ethics, Pandemics, and the Duty to Treat, The American Journal of Bioethics (2008), 8:8, 4-19, DOI: 10.1080/15265160802317974 Full text available via Taylor and Francis Online.

Should medical students continue their training during the epidemic?

Should Medical Students Continue Clinical Rotations During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

And a rejoinder:

Medical Ethics in the Time of COVID-19: A Call for Critical Reflection

Ethics, Covid-19, and moral injury:

Doctors are making life-and-death choices over coronavirus patients – it could have long-term consequences for them

Psychology, Coping, Vulnerability and Risk

Coping with the stress of the pandemic:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85660?xid=nl_popmed_2020-04-16&eun=g327489d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CoronaBreak_041620&utm_term=NL_Daily_Breaking_News_Active

Medical anthropologist on why we wear masks:

Opinion | The Social Life of Coronavirus Masks

Counterphobic reactions to danger (an ironic face mask design comment):

Using an ‘Alien’ Facehugger As a Protective Face Mask

Why do so many people believe in SARS-CoV-2 conspiracy theories?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/world/europe/coronavirus-conspiracy-theories.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage&fbclid=IwAR1HCp7zVpQwNFtCmPwBMfSYY5vaEXJ6CbbqgJDl_OwWHtRlaAFKAoQdNOY

5G Conspiracy Theories: Pressure of a pandemic brings old fears of new wireless tech into the

Celebs share rumors linking 5G to coronavirus, nutjobs burn cell towers

The illusion of perfect protection:

https://www.wired.com/story/bulletproof-vest-illusion-of-perfect-protection/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Backchannel_041220_TopClickers&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5c5b21f92ddf9c2e3579c781&cndid=17027253&esrc=&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_BACKCHANNEL_ZZ&utm_term=WIR_TopClickers_EXCLUDE_Backchannel

Math and appreciating risk:

https://theconversation.com/math-misconceptions-may-lead-people-to-underestimate-the-true-threat-of-covid-19-134520?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2010%202020%20-%201591115235&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2010%202020%20-%201591115235+Version+A+CID_067172bb28572d35d3f56edcd17df24f&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=Math%20misconceptions%20may%20lead%20people%20to%20underestimate%20the%20true%20threat%20of%20COVID-19

What numbers can we trust, and which should ignore?

Coronavirus statistics: what can we trust and what should we ignore?

Protecting yourself from disinformation:

https://theconversation.com/4-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-disinformation-130767

The rise of false hopes and hydroxychloroquine:

Analysis | How false hope spread about hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19 — and the consequences that followed

Looking Ahead

How Covid-19 is remaking social relationships, ethics and history:

Coronavirus: How COVID-19 is changing the world – Monash Lens

Who Will We Be This Time Next Year? On Pandemic Times and the Life to Come

André Aciman: Who Will We Be This Time Next Year?

What if Covid-19 Returns Every Year, Like the Common Cold?

https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-covid-19-returns-every-year-like-the-common-cold/?bxid=5c5b21f92ddf9c2e3579c781&cndid=17027253&esrc=AUTO_PRINT&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_041520&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4

How will the Covid-19 epidemic end?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/

The difficulty of modeling the epidemic:

Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model

More about forecasting the end of the pandemic:

Our Pandemic Summer

Pandemic offers a chance to remake cities:

https://www.wired.com/story/pandemic-opportunity-remake-cities/?bxid=5c5b21f92ddf9c2e3579c781&cndid=17027253&esrc=AUTO_PRINT&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_041320&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4

(Economics) Where we could go from here?:

Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking

Humor

The FIRST lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing:

The first lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing.

The LAST lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing:

Okay, now the LAST lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing.

Film in the age of COVID-19:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2020/mar/24/from-fight-club-to-brief-encounter-how-self-isolation-would-change-classic-films?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0ZpbG1Ub2RheS0yMDAzMjQ%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=FilmToday&CMP=filmtoday_email

Nature is healing/We are the virus meme:

The Coronavirus “Nature Is Healing” Meme’s Backstory

Links to Other Syllabi

Northeastern University Coronavirus Humanities Reader:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UeAN5jhSib-CsP17keNC6c3iMF7PgE3KDDDBy24w0xY/edit?usp=sharing

A crowdsourced cross-disciplinary resource:

#coronavirussyllabus

*Adapting ANTH101 Challenges for Covid-19 (Cultural Anthropology for Everyone). Michael Wesch (2008 U.S. Professor of Year), University of Kansas State, USA

*Archaeology of Epidemics Syllabus, University of Washington

*Assignment: A Day in the Life of a Pandemic: COVID-19 Assignment, Natalia Molina, University of Southern California.

*Bibliography: Coronaviruses • SARS • MERS • COVID-19

*Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus, Limited Open-Access Books from Duke University Press.

*#coronavirussyllabusk12 (K-12 Teaching Resources)

*Coronavirus Tech Handbook

*Disability Justice Framework COVID-19 Resources

*Economic History Review Limited Open-Access articles on Epidemics, Disease and Mortality in Economic History

*Ethics Resources on the Coronavirus (COVID-19), The Hastings Center.

*Feminist Resources on the Pandemic, Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (UK)

*Humanities Coronavirus Syllabus

*Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic (free online course from Harvard via edX)

*NBER Collection on Economic and Other Consequences of Previous Epidemics, National Bureau of Economic Research.

*Politics of Plague Course Syllabus, Patricia Stapelton, Social Science and Policy Studies Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

*Public Collection of COVID-19 Citations, Yale University Medical Library

*Queering the Pandemic Syllabus

*Teaching Coronavirus—Sociological Syllabus Project

*Teaching COVID-19: A Collaborative Anthropology Syllabus Project, Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal.

*The Black Death: Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World

*The Emergence of Global Health

JHI Program for the Arts 2020-2021 FUNDING Deadline Extended

FROM THE JACKMAN HUMANITIES INSTITUTE

Dear Colleagues:
The deadline for applications for funding in 2020-2021 for the JHI Program for the Arts is now extended to 15 April 2020 at midnight. A couple of provisions have also been adjusted to make it possible to fund online events and to encourage applicants to consider contingency plans for their events, should regular operations not be feasible when the time comes.
Applications are welcome from all continuing teaching and research members of the faculty.
Could you please share the revised Call for Applications (attached, and copied in below this message) with your mailing list to faculty members?
Sincerely,
Kim

—–
Dr. Kimberley Yates, Associate Director
Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
170 St. George Street, Room 1029
Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
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 Call for Proposals — REVISED

The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts, 2020-2021

 Deadline for applications: EXTENDED TO 15 APRIL 

The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts supports a range of events from small (up to $3000) to larger (up to $10,000) designed to enhance, improve and raise the profile of the Arts at the University. Activities may include visitors, lecture series, symposia, exhibitions, performances, or other imaginative and arts initiatives, which will serve to foster the work of the Jackman Humanities Institute and to represent the leading scholarship of the humanities at the University of Toronto. Each year there will be a priority for at least one event that engages the wider public. The Program gives priority to activities that range across multiple units and across more than one campus. It does not support activities that are routine matters of the sort that individual academic units would normally fund (e.g. departmental colloquia, learned society meetings, etc.). The Program also prefers activities that are related to the 2020-2021 theme—Collectives—but will consider proposals with other foci. Applications will be evaluated for conceptual fit, methodology, and research outputs.  

Proposals that include contingency plans for remote access, or are designed to run via remote access will be given priority. 

2020 – 2021: Collectives

From political parties to literary coteries, from fan groups to sports teams, from terrorist organizations to online groups, our collectives, associations, and communities are multiform and complex. How do we band together and why? In teaming up, how does membership of a collective affect one’s own agency and standing – what do we lose, what do we gain? Can collectives truly be agents and how do group dynamics emerge? How do we balance the interests between collectives, of individuals and collectives, and of the individual within the collective?

 Applications are invited from appointed members of the continuing research and teaching faculty at the University of Toronto.  To apply:

1.     You must have an active userID account on the JHI website

https://humanities.utoronto.ca

2.     Complete the online application form at
https://humanities.utoronto.ca/funding/20-21_Program_for_the_Arts

3.     Upload a description and rationale including fit with 2020-2021 annual theme of Collectives

(500 words—FIRM limit on length)

4.     Upload a proposed budget outline showing all known sources of support 

To clarify some of the preferences of the Program the following guidelines will normally apply:

1.     Funding will be awarded from $1,000-$3,000 (small), $3,000-$5,000 (medium) or up to $10,000 (large). Projects with a total budget (including all sources) over $30,000 will not be supported.

2.     Interdisciplinary activities that reach across units, and across campuses are given priority.

3.     Subventions for academic publishing will not be considered at this time; exhibition catalogues that are part of a larger academic event are the only publication that will be considered for funding.

4.     Significant costs (over $3,000) for performers will not be funded.

 

5.     Events of an annual or continual nature that have previously been funded through the Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts are normally eligible for one repeat year of funding; this need not be sequential.

6.     The JHI provides basic publicity package (in-house colour flyer on request, website event posting, JHI social media and newsletter, email announcement to departments and relevant EDU’s), and will make available the first-floor multipurpose room (seats 100) and tenth-floor meeting room (seats 25; weekdays 9-4 only) to all funded events.

7.     Costs for publicity and space rental will not normally be accepted as fundable budget items. A/V recordings of events funded by the Program for the Arts should be included as a regularly budgeted item in the budget proposal with an explanation of the research or pedagogical need for the recording included in the Description and Rationale document. The responsibility for arranging recordings will lie with the event organizer.

8.     Due to COVID-19 precautions, for 2020-2021, proposals that include either a contingency plan for remote access, or are designed to run via remote access, will be given priority. 

Questions?

For clarifications about this program, please contact JHI Director Professor Alison Keith at

jhi.director@utoronto.ca

For website assistance, please contact JHI Associate Director Dr. Kimberley Yates at jhi.associate@utoronto.ca

 

Applications due: Wednesday 15 April 2020 at midnight

Cultural Psychiatry Day – May 1, 2019

All health professionals and students welcome! Please share widely!

INDIGENOUS MENTAL HEALTH: CLINICAL WISDOM & APPLICATIONS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019
13:30 – 16:30 EDT / 10:30 – 13:30 PDT
Mount Sinai Hospital Auditorium, 18th floor – 600 University Avenue

Free Registration & Info: AnneMarie.Vico@sinaihealthsystem.ca

Cultural Psychiatry Day 2019

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TRC Bentwood Box – Luke Marston

Dr. Cornelia (Nel) Wieman, MD FRCPC
Senior Medical Officer – Mental Health & Wellness, First Nations Health Authority
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University

Dr. Arlene MacDougall, MD MSc FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University
Director of Research and Innovation for Mental Health,
St. Joseph’s Health Care London and Parkwood Research Institute

Bill Hill, RN, MSW, RSW
Indigenous knowledge keeper
with 30+ years experience as psychiatric social worker and nurse at St Joe’s, London.
Resident Presentation by: Dr. Ashley Johnson, McMaster University