New on Synapsis! Danielle Wilfand writes on the experience of making sense of undiagnosed illness as both patient and physician, and the power of narrative medicine in allowing us to live with chaos. Read it here! medicalhealthhumanities.com/2025/02/08/the…

NEW on SYNAPSIS: Nicholas Derda reviews Paul M. Renfro’s new book, The Life and Times of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America (2024), and asks: how do we re-examine this history without reifying a whitewashed narrative about HIV/AIDS? Read it here: medicalhealthhumanities.com/2025/02/13/inn…

Up on SYNAPSIS now! Do you find the best cure for writer's block a quick walk around the block? Matt Somerville writes on the history of walking as creative practice, and the new research behind it. Read it here! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ medicalhealthhumanities.com/2025/02/21/tak…

New on Synapsis! How can we speak of the singular traumas we collectively experienced during the COVID pandemic? Ingrid Berg reviews Days of Grace and Silence (2024), a remarkable new work of memoir and poetry by Ann E. Wallace. Read it here ⬇️⬇️ medicalhealthhumanities.com/2025/02/16/cap…

Ghosts and Angels: The Supernatural in Illness Narratives medicalhealthhumanities.com/2025/02/25/gho… via Synapsis #histmed

New articles for the upcoming week from SYNAPSIS! Returning contributor Merve Şen writes on Ben Marcus's 2012 novel The Flame Alphabet, and examines practices of amateur medicine and DIY-self care in the midst of an unsettling pandemic. Read it here: medicalhealthhumanities.com/2025/05/04/hom…

New article up on SYNAPSIS! Ashley Moyse, Director of the Columbia Character Cooperatives, writes about the Cooperatives' mission, Jonathan Swift's vision of the bee, and imagining a future for medicine of mutuality, discernment, and care. Read it here: medicalhealthhumanities.com/2025/06/17/swe…