More Resources


General – Health Humanities

Health, Arts & Humanities Program, University of Toronto http://health-humanities.com/

Canadian Association of Health Humanities https://www.cahh.ca/

Literature, Arts and Medicine database

The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine by Charon, et al.

At the Membranes of Care: Stories in Narrative Medicine. Rita Charon. Academic Medicine, 2012. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292868/

Narrative Medicine, Narrative Humility by Sayantani DasGupta https://creativenonfiction.org/writing/narrative-medicine-narrative-humility/

The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics by Arthur Frank

Why Doctors’ Stories Matter by Arthur Frank. Canadian Family Physician https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809180/

Bringing Home the Health Humanities: Narrative Humility, Structural Competency, and Engaged Pedagogy. Rebecca K. Tseva et al.

Shapiro J. Illness narratives: reliability, authenticity and the empathic witness. Medical Humanities 2011;37:68-72.

The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland by Cheryl Mattingly

Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies

A History of the Present Illness: Stories by Louise Aronson

Narrative Gerontology in Research and Practice

The Institute for Poetic Medicine https://poeticmedicine.org/

Pulse Journal – voices from the heart of medicine https://pulsevoices.org/

Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts & Humanities https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal

The Examined Life Journal, University of Iowa Carter School of Medicine http://theexaminedlifejournal.com/

Literature and Medicine https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/literature-and-medicine

Rafael Campo – poet/physician https://www.rafaelcampo.com/

Theresa Brown, RN https://theresabrownrn.com/

Narrative Medicine Reading List (500) Good Reads https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/narrative-medicine

Narrative Texts

13 Poems about Chronic Illness https://www.bustle.com/p/13-poems-about-the-experience-of-chronic-illness-15895482

List of Medical Memoirs https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/medical-memoirs-6009897#1

Poems about Sickness, Illness & Recovery https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/145189/poems-of-illness-5a319c160b730

On Being Podcast – ‘Experience Poetry’ and ‘Poetry Unbound’

Poem – ‘Kindness’ by Naomi Shihab Nye

Poems used in mindfulness-based stress reduction programs https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/fmph/research/mindfulness/mindfulness-resources/Pages/Mindful-Poetry.aspx

Creative Writing

Creative Non Fiction Journal https://creativenonfiction.org/what-is-cnf/

Writing Alone and With Others: Basic Principles of a Healthy Workshop by Pat Schneider

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Writing down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr, 2018.

Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr, 2003.

Curriculum Resources

Winkel AF. Narrative Medicine: A Writing Workshop Curriculum for Residents. MedEdPORTAL. 2016;12:10493.

Chretien, K.C., Swenson, R., Yoon, B. et al. Tell Me Your Story: A Pilot Narrative Medicine Curriculum During the Medicine Clerkship. J GEN INTERN MED 30, 1025–1028 (2015).

Health Humanities in Post-Graduate Medical Education edited by Allan D. Peterkin and Anna Skorzewska.

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