“Reading is a Right,” that’s the idea at the heart of a pioneering partnership between Advocate Children’s Hospital (ACH) and Chicago-area suburban libraries.
When Tracie LaNier, a social worker in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Advocate Health, lost her brother, Clayton Henderson, 64, in an unexpected death earlier this year, support came from a source she hadn’t anticipated: the members of the hospital system’s Narrative Medicine program team.
In this Mindworks in Conversation, family physician Dr. Andre Lijoi and Johns Hopkins chaplain and medical journalist Elizabeth Tracey explore an enduring question in medicine: Is empathy something we’re born with - or something clinicians must intentionally cultivate?
In this episode of Mindworks in Conversation, psychiatrist, poet, and USC Narrative Medicine faculty member Jonathan Chou shares how writing his award-winning poetry collection Resemblance helped him explore identity, diaspora, and the emotional complexities of history and memory.
Discover how narrative practice, medical humanities, and ethical storytelling shape Amanda Caleb’s work - bridging history, healthcare, and human connection - in this insightful Mindworks in Conversation episode.
Discover how narrative practice gave new life to Rita Basuray’s lifelong passion for visual art.
- Mindworks in Conversation featuring Maya Sorini | Poetry as a Lifeline Through Pain, Memory, and Medicine’s Moral Complexity
- Radical Histories, Radical Bodies: Marissa Spear on Narrative Practice at the Intersection of Disability and History
- Small Objects, Big Stories: Legacy Artist Curates Healing and Connection through “Show & Tales”
- Mindworks in Conversation with Leslie Savoy Burrs - Composer, Flutist, Educator
