What's New

November 22, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS
10 Year Anniversary Book, Editors' Choices from The Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database, (see order form) and its corresponding on-line version (see left panel): editor-annotators discuss the literature, art, and films they consider most valuable for medical humanities teaching and related scholarship (published October 2003).

Note the link from A Roster of Twentieth Century Physicians Writing in English to information about the Daniel Bryant collection of books by physician writers at NYU School of Medicine 		  Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog Latest Posts:
 

NEW MATERIAL

4 New Film Annotations
9 New Literature Annotations
8 New Authors
1
New Keywords

 

CHANGES:

Authors/Poets/Artists represented in this database who died recently:

Mary Anne Bartley
Cathy Crimmins
Lilian R. Furst
Cecil Helman
Frank McCourt
Jerri Nielsen

 

ADDITIONS:

There is a new subcategory of film: Web Video. See annotation of "In My Language."

We have added a new keyword, Chronic Illness/Chronic Disease. We are slowly reviewing our old annotations and adding this keyword where appropriate.

NEW LINKS HAVE BEEN MADE TO:

 
Annotated art work (see also the Viewing Room):
Pieter Bruegel the Elder  The Triumph of Death
Albrecht Dürer  The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve)
Geritt Dou  The Dropsical Woman
  The Quack
Duccio di Buoninsegna  Jesus Opens the Eyes of a Man Born Blind
Francisco Goya  Deaf Man
  Las Viejas
Hugo Simberg  The Garden of Death
Titian (Tiziano Veccellio)  Three Ages of Man
 
Homepages of authors (see also Meet the Author):
Dannie Abse , Khassan Baiev , Roy Richard Grinker and Jennifer Haigh
 
Online excerpts of films and videos (see also the Screening Room):
The HeART of Empathy: Using the Visual Arts in Medical Eduation 
 
TOTAL DATABASE CONTENTS
142 Art Annotations
223 Film Annotations
2465 Literature Annotations
1 Theater Annotations
89 Artists
1529 Authors
138 Keywords