Bessie Young, currently a UCSF Medical student and recent UC Berkeley master’s student, holds an MFA in Photography and MS in Health and Medical Sciences...
We welcome the CSTMS community back to campus for a reception to mark the new semester! Reconnect with colleagues and meet new graduate students, Visiting Scholars, Visiting Student Researchers, and CSTMS Faculty Affiliates. We will discuss our various Working Groups and...
Please join us for filmmaker Donagh Coleman‘s latest production, Tukdam: Between Worlds (2022, 91 min). After the screening, there will be a discussion led by respondents...
The first PMH working group meeting of the semester will take place on Wednesday, October 14th from 12 – 2 pm. The PMH working group provides opportunities for students and faculty to engage in interdisciplinary efforts to...
Marilyn McEntyre, PhD, Fellow in the Program for Medical Humanities, will be speaking at this month’s meeting next Wednesday, Nov. 11, at noon on her forthcoming book, Dear Doctor: What Doctors Don’t Ask, What...
The short essays that follow are informal reflections of Fellows of the UC Berkeley Program for the Medical Humanities. The Program is an interdisciplinary conversation among scholars and medical professionals about how and where medicine, medical education and the public may benefit from the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Some of those benefits are obvious: historical work such as that done by one of our founding Fellows, Tom Laqueur, on the history of the body and the history of sexuality, contextualizes contemporary, often culture-bound, notions...
