Definitions
“an inter- and multidisciplinary field that explore contexts, experiences, and crucial and conceptual issues in medicine and health care, while supporting professional identity formation.” (Cole et al)
medical humanities
The USPHS' non-consensual study of African American men that took place in Tuskegee, AL for 40 years examined the effects of leaving this disease untreated
Syphilis
“Pain – has an Element of ______________” (Dickinson)
Blank
Eula Biss: "The _______ Scale"
Pain
Rana Awdish
Both
Proposed by Paul Crawford, this alternative to the term “medical humanities” seeks to describe “a more inclusive, outward-facing and applied discipline, embracing interdisciplinarity and engaging with the contributions of those marginalized from the medical humanities”
health humanities
J. Marion Sims experimented on enslaved women with this condition
vesicovaginal fistula
"The water I taste is warm and salt, like the sea, / And comes from a country far away as _________" (Plath)
Health
Arthur Frank: “Being a Good ______________”
Story
Anatole Broyard
Patient
Proposed by Sarah Atkinson et. al, this alternative to the term “medical humanities” seeks to challenge the power associated with “the medical” and grapples with the phenomenon of “medicalization”
critical medical humanities
Susan Sontag explores the meanings of this common 19th century diagnosis, known as the “romantic disease”
“My point is that illness is not a ____________” (Sontag)
metaphor
Anatole Broyard: "______ Talk to Me"
Doctor
The narrator of A History of Present Illness
Both
Defined by Rita Charon as “medicine practiced with the narrative competencies to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness”
narrative medicine
Initially, Rana Awdish is diagnosed with this syndrome, a pregnancy complication typically appearing in the third trimester.
HELLP Syndrome
“___________ isn’t just remembering to say that must be really hard – it’s figuring out how to bring difficulty into the light so that it can be seen at all” (Jamison)
Empathy
Leslie Jamison: "The Empathy __________"
Bettina Judd
As a revision to Charon’s concept of “narrative competency,” Sayantani DasGupta proposes this term to describe an approach that involves “understanding that stories are not merely receptacles of facts, but that every story holds some element of the unknowable.”
narrative humility
The standardized patient that Leslie Jamison plays experiences seizures due to this disorder, a psychiatric diagnosis.
conversion disorder
“Disease can be reduced to biochemistry, whereas __________ involves a biography, a reflective consciousness, multiple relationships, and institutions” (Frank)
illness
Zora Neale Hurston: “My Most _______________ Jim Crow Experience”
Humiliating
Rebecca Crumpler
Doctor