Stanford Center for
Biomedical Ethics

Program on Arts, Humanities & Medicine Arts, Humanities & Miedicine Program

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

Program brochure
The Arts, Humanities & 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.


Uniting the arts, medicine, and the humanities to improve the human condition.

Healing and discovery through the arts ~ The arts through healing and discovery

Program features and updates

Medical student and BEMH concentrator Woody Chang’s article “Fit to Print? Media Accounts of Unproven Medical Treatments Across Time” is published in AJOB Primary Research, 2013


Arts, Humanities & Medicine Steering Committee member Dr. Shaili Jain is featured in the NYT in an article, The Sounds of a Mystery, about the Music & the Brain: Hearing Voices Symposium


Medical student Katie Miller and SCBE Senior Research Scholar Katrina Karkazis publish their work on health practices and attitudes in a polygamist society in the Journal of Religion and Health: Miller AC, Karkazis K. Health beliefs and practices in an isolated polygamist community of Southern Utah. J Relig Health. 2013 Jun;52(2): 597-609. 
Do Good Well Medical student and BEMH concentrator Jennifer Przybylo’s new book Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action and Social Innovation, co-written with Nina Vasan is available now! Congratulations!
Medical student/anthropology graduate student and BEMH concentrator Amrapali Maitra is selected as a 2013 Soros Fellow
Susan Kaplan, PhD, a member of the writers workshops @ Stanford med, has a poem, Survivors, published in the spring, 2013 issue of The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
Kendra Peterson, MD, a member of the writers workshops @ Stanford med and Pegasus Physician Writers, has a poem, Overwhelmed, published in the spring, 2013 issue of The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
Pria Anand Medical student and BEMH concentrator Pria Anand’s article, “Far, Far Away,” based on her medical scholars project researching the deaf population on Isla Providencia appears in the journal Creative Nonfiction.
Jessica New Continuing Studies Courses for spring 2013: Writing Through Illness: Finding Strength in Storytelling with Jessica Goldman Foung
An Art Exhibit opened October 30, 2012, at
Li Ka Shing Center for Learning & Knowledge (map: LKSC)
The Arts, Humanities & Medicine Program was featured on the Stanford Arts Institute Timeline.

Featuring work by Lea Feinstein (see photo), medical student and BEMH concentrator Tessa Johung, Roxanne Blackwood and Alfred P. Spivack, MD
Further information: Traudi Sedelmayr traudis@stanford.edu

Further publications by members of the Pegasus Physician Writers can be found here.

See In the News for a feature article in Stanford News on the

upcoming events

Medical Writing Circle
AHM and BEMH will sponsor three creative writing workshops for medical students of all experience levels. No experience is necessary.

April 16, May 7 & May 28
7:00pm - 9:30pm

Instructor: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, EdD, Consulting Professor, School of Medicine

Meeting Place: (home of instructor)

To participate RSVP one week before the workshop date to: smshige@stanford.edu


Healing Our Heroes
Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:30pm
Pegasus Physician Writers
Reading, Cantor Arts Center Auditorium

No rsvp needed, free and open to the public

Contact Rebecca Hall becky.e.hall@gmail.com

ways to give gifts

A gift may be made in the form of a check, securities, a bequest, or a complex trust arrangement designed to maximize tax advantages. Checks should be made payable to Stanford University.

For information about ways to give, please contact:
Anne Crowe, Assistant Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
(650) 498-5305

All contributions welcome!

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