Program on Arts, Humanities & Medicine

The Arts, Humanities and Medicine Program at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics provides a focal point for integrating the arts and humanities into medical education, the medical center community and the practice of medicine at Stanford. Events include the annual spring Medicine and the Muse Symposium and Music and Medicine: The Art of Listening.
about the program
The 11-sentance Medical Mystery
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The Arts, Humanities and Medicine Program promotes creative and scholarly work at the intersections between the arts, humanities and medicine in order to enhance our understanding of the contextual meanings of illness, healthcare, and the human condition.

View a video of the fall 2007 Music and Medicine event!

Congratulations to medical student James Andrews, whose chapter on Surgical Ethics, co-written with Larry Zaroff, will be published in January 2008 in the Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics, Cambridge University Press [link]. James is a Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities concentrator.

Program Update: June 2007

Featured Site: Visit the Accomplishments and Publications page for information on arts and humanities related work by students, alumni, faculty and staff.

Stanford medical school alumna Elissa Meites announces the publication of her story: "Choose."

Contact Audrey Shafer, MD if you would like your work included on this site.
upcoming events
Centennial

May 6th, 2008
The Annual Medicine and the Muse Symposium
Anne Fadiman - Author: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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May 2, 2008
THE BEAUTIFUL SADNESS (flyer)
Play and Music by Steven Lin, SMSII
5:00-6:00pm, Clark Auditorium. More info »

Winter/Spring 2008
Writers' Workshops with Sharon Bray, EdD. More »

Spring Course Offering: INDE 247: The Theatre of Illness