Health and Medical Humanities

(see sections: Medicine and the Arts, Teaching and Learning Moments, Cover Art)

(see Poetry and Other Creative Works, and Perspectives, in the Features section)

Illuminating the art of medicine

Ars Medica is a biannual literary journal that explores the interface between the arts and healing, and examines what makes medicine an art

Arts & Health provides a pioneering international forum for the publication of research, policy and best practice within the interdisciplinary field of arts and health.

The Bellevue Literary Review was created as a forum for creatively exploring a broad array of issues in medicine and society, using fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to better understand the nuanced tensions that define our lives both in illness and in health.

Configurations explores the relations of literature and the arts to the sciences and technology.

The Healing Muse is the annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University's Center for Bioethics & Humanities. We welcome fiction, poetry, narratives, essays, memoirs and visual art, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine, illness, disability and healing.

(see Narrative Matters section: first-person essays about experiences with health care)

A journal of medical humanities published in Chicago by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine.

The literary magazine of the UVA School of Medicine

Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine is a literary journal dedicated to promoting the theory and practice of Narrative Medicine, an interdisciplinary field that enhances healthcare through the effective communication and understanding between caregivers and patients.

Focusing on representations of disability, the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) publishes a wide variety of textual analyses that are informed by disability theory and, by extension, experiences of disability.

Publishes original interdisciplinary studies of medicine and medical education. Research findings emerge from three areas of investigation: medical humanities, cultural studies, and pedagogy.

Areas of interest include disease, illness, health, and disability; violence, trauma, and power relations; and the cultures of biomedical science and technology and of the clinic, as these are represented and interpreted in verbal, visual, and material texts.

Medical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient experience and the public at large.

PEHM welcomes innovative research at the intersection of medical ethics and bioethics, philosophy of medicine, and medical humanities from a variety of perspectives and contexts.

Voices from the heart of medicine. Publishing personal accounts of illness and healing, fostering the humanistic practice of medicine.