Spotlight Archive

Mark Kaufman's feature includes quotes from the UCI Center for Medical Humanities Director, Dr. Jim Lee.

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A Message from the Executive Committee

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The Executive Committee of the Center for Medical Humanities encourages the UCI and broader Orange County community to approach the current coronavirus outbreak with compassion and unity. The committee urges people to refrain from racially-inflected discourse surrounding the outbreak of coronavirus in their efforts to combat this infection.

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There is no sugarcoating the fact that we are living in extraordinary and extraordinarily stressful times. It's important to acknowledge that the COVID-19 global pandemic is resulting in feelings of stress and anxiety for students, faculty and staff at UCI and members of our local community.

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An Invitation from the Executive Committee

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Stories hold us together. This is especially true of our personal and familial stories of illness, which is why it is so important that doctors know how to listen and respond to these narratives. In this lecture, Dr. Shapiro will share how familial illness and physicians' responses shaped her life.

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An exploration of games and passion points as entries into complex learning by Sam Carter, 4th year PhD candidate in the Visual Studies program at UCI and Jovan Julien, 4th year PhD candidate in Operations Research at Georgia Institute of Technology.

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STROKE BOOK emerged out of a health crisis in the summer of 2019, and a need to think and feel that crisis through my sexuality, my changing sense of dis/ability, and my experience of time.

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Have you ever felt like the "crazy" person in a relationship? Too "needy," volatile, codependent, or just "different"? What comes to mind when you think of a "healthy relationship"?

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In the middle of the Cold War, a surprising therapy began to attract the attention of American patients, physicians, and legislators: acupuncture. Having been promoted as a revolutionary treatment in the People's Republic of China, acupuncture became an object of both fascination and disdain in the United States.

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The relationship between political ideology and cognition has received little attention. In this presentation, we will describe our pioneering investigation into the relationship between cognitive decline and political ideology.

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In art, we reveal our lives. Our lives include our minds, our bodies, and our access to attention. Using the model of the family tree, this short workshop will help you bring attention to the generations of psychological patterns in your life while also writing creatively around and into them. We will retrieve the present with the past in our families and beyond.

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The Reflections Project explores literature and performance as a medium for healing by promoting understanding, connection, and awareness.

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Kathrin Herrmann is a veterinary expert in animal welfare science, ethics and law. Since 2017, she has worked at the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) at Johns Hopkins University, USA, where she directs the Beyond Classical Refinement Program. Her work addresses the reproducibility and translatability crises that science is facing.

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In our final Open in Emergency event of the year, Mimi Khuc returned with Simi Kang, Yanyi, and Shana Haydock to lead us in a workshop to collectively create a new tarot card for the Asian American Tarot that captured our experiences of 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants generated ideas to inform the text of this collective card as well as imagery.

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In this reading and conversation, we will explore the centrality of language in medicine, the interconnectedness between writing and doctoring, and finding a way to live through and even embrace the beauty and terror of being human.

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From the majestic peaks of the snow-capped Sierras to the parched valley of Payahuunadu, "the land of flowing water," MANZANAR, DIVERTED: WHEN WATER BECOMES DUST poetically weaves together memories of intergenerational women. Native Americans, Japanese-American WWII incarcerees and environmentalists form an unexpected alliance to defend their land and water from Los Angeles.

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Watch the "Illness as Method" panel featuring Dr. Patrick Anderson, Dr. Mel Chen, Dr. Lochlann Jain, and Dr. Lana Lin. This presentation is part of the Mellon Sawyer "Suffer Well" Seminar Series.

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Watch Dr. Chen's presentation "Swimming the Sea: A Surgeon on Suffering," as part of the Mellon-Sawyer "Suffer Well" Seminar Series.

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Watch Dr. Susan Schweik's presentation of "Disability Studies and the Problem of Suffering" as part of our Mellon-Sawyer "Suffer-Well" Seminar Series.

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Professor Andromache Karanika bridges the Classics and Medicine in a new course: Classics 10 - Scientific and Specialized Terminology.

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