Definitions
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
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
Standardized patient
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
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
Jonathan Gleason writes about performing this job
Medical interpreter
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
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
Rebecca Crumpler was the first Black woman to hold the title of this job
doctor
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
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 __________"
People doing this job are who the speaker of "Tulips" refers to when she says:
My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water
Tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing them gently.
nurses
An approach to ethics that goes beyond "principlism" that integrates story-telling as a way to account for and prioritize patients' specific contexts
narrative bioethics
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
The narrator of "People Like That are the Only People Here" is appalled by the person doing this job, when he says, "You don't know exactly what it is until it's in the bucket"
radiologist