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Rice Medical Humanities aims to bridge the gap between the Humanities and Social Sciences and Medicine in the Rice University community by fostering interdisciplinary connections and promoting medical humanities in undergraduate education.

09/23/2021

Hi Medhum!

The Medical Humanities Symposium is an annual event held by the Rice MedHum Club that brings in clinicians and faculty from various disciplines of the humanities to speak about their work pertaining to a chosen theme of medical humanities. One of the new events we will be planning this year is a humanities-based hackathon, where students can creatively engage with medical humanities topics.

If you're interested in being part of the Symposium Committee to help organize this year's symposium and hackathon, please apply with the link below! The application is open until Sunday, September 26th at 11:59 pm.
https://forms.gle/uecEceZu12xbWc19A

We welcome anyone who is interested in helping plan the event(s), regardless of experience with medical humanities. This is a great opportunity to build connections with faculty at Rice and the TMC, and gain experience organizing events!

03/07/2021

Hi everyone! Join us for a Zoom chat with Carol Herron this Monday at 4 pm! Zoom details on the flyer!

10/06/2020

Hi MedHum!!!

The Medical Humanities Symposium is an annual event held by the Rice MedHum Club that brings in clinicians and faculty from various disciplines of the humanities to speak about their work pertaining to a chosen theme of medical humanities.

If you're interested in being part of the Symposium Committee to help organize this year's symposium, please apply at this link! The application is open until Saturday, October 10th at 11:59 pm. https://forms.gle/G8C2UT2xAf1n2Zgm7

We welcome anyone who is interested in helping plan the event, regardless of experience with medical humanities. This is a great opportunity to build connections with faculty at Rice and the TMC, and gain experience organizing events!

10/05/2020

We're holding a booth in the RMC courtyard to from 12-2pm today, Wednesday 4/7 from 5-7pm, and Friday 4/19 from 2-4pm! Drop by to write or drop off a letter! There is also a drop -off box located near the circulation desk in the library.

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The Rice Medical Humanities Club wants to show gratitude to frontline workers and medical professionals by launching the “Notes for Coats” campaign, which encourages Rice students, faculty, and staff to write letters of support to healthcare workers across the country.

We have partnered with multiple institutions including The Montefiore Health System of the Bronx, Tsehootsooi Medical Center of Arizona, and The Holy Name Medical Center in New Jersey. We hope that by sending these letters, healthcare professionals across the country feel appreciated and comforted during these difficult times.

Please visit http://medhumclub.rice.edu/letter_submission.html to submit a letter. Handwritten letters are also welcome! Please contact mkw8@rice.edu for more information.

06/05/2020

The Rice Medical Humanities Club stands with Rice for Black Life, and is committed to learning about and working to combat the ways that white supremacy is built into our healthcare system. We have compiled the following list of educational materials to hopefully spark discussion about what we can do. Thank you to all of the amazing faculty and students who offered their recommendations.

Books:
Historical and present exploitation of and violence against black bodies in science and medicine:
Medical Bo***ge, Dierdre Cooper Owens
Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics, Karla Holloway
Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts
Medical Apartheid, Harriet Washington
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

The myth of race as biology and its implications in medicine:
The Social Life of DNA, Alondra Nelson
Fatal Invention, Dorothy Roberts
What’s the Use of Race?: Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference, Ian Whitmarsh and David S. Jones

Racialized disease and illness:
Dying in the City of the Blues, Keith Wailoo
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, Jonathan Metzl
Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference, Anne Po***ck

Personalized accounts of navigating race and medicine:
The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde
Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston

Podcasts/TED Talks:
A Decade Of Watching Black People Die, Code Switch
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865261916/a-decade-of-watching-black-people-die
Dorothy Roberts TED talk: The Problem with Race-Based Medicine
https://www.ted.com/talks/dorothy_roberts_the_problem_with_race_based_medicine/discussion
Race and Medicine, Radiolab
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91653-race

Essays/Articles:
The Long History of Discrimination in Pain Medicine
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91653-race
How we fail black patients in pain
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-we-fail-black-patients-pain
The Black American Amputation Epidemic
https://features.propublica.org/diabetes-amputations/black-american-amputation-epidemic/
How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in Medicine Today
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-differences-doctors.html
Why Doesn’t America Have Universal Health Care? One Word: Race
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html
White Coats For Black Lives Group
https://whitecoats4blacklives.org/

03/04/2020

Meeting in 10 MINUTES in the Will Rice PDR! Come to hear upcoming events and eat ICE CREAM! (Coming to this meeting also fulfills 1 of 2 requirements to vote/run for office)

02/07/2020

Pizza chat is happening in ~10 minutes in the Weiss PDR! Come on out! If you are having trouble finding it, go to the Weiss commons and go down the hallway to the left, last door on the right.

12/09/2019

The medhum faculty is holding their CUPCAKE STUDY BREAK in the Herring Hall Courtyard today from 4-6 pm! That's in ~1 hr. Drop by, eat a cupcake, and say hello to our amazing medhum faculty!

12/07/2019

Join us for a study break at the McGovern Historical Center on Tuesday from 4-7! Details below - transportation and food provided. Contact our page or email club sponsor John Mulligan at jcm10@rice.edu to sign up!

Address

1600 Rice Boulevard
Houston, TX
77005

Website

http://medhumclub.rice.edu/index.html

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