Medical Humanities and Arts Program About Us Curriculum Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum Research & Creative Projects Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Plexus Journals Funding Opportunities & Awards Publications Support and Partners Publications and Presentations Home Education Department Programs Medical Humanities and Arts Program Medical Humanities and Arts Program > Publications Publications in the Medical Humanities and Arts Program The Medical Humanities and Arts Program (MHAP) has evolved since its inception in 1999, with a growing body of publications reflecting its development and impact. Publications 2020-Present Russian, E.T., Juliet McMullin, and Delight Satter. 2023. High Rates. Literature and Medicine. 41(1): 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a911440 (comic) McMullin, Juliet, Ann Cheney, Sean Milanovich, Sherri Salgado, Julie Andrews, Regina Hughes, Kendall Shumway, Katheryn Rodriguez, Luella Vann Thornton, Laurette McGuire, Wyatt Kelly, Veronica Espinoza, Jonell John, Jackie Wisespirit. 2023. Historical Wisdom: Data analysis and reimagining in anti-oppressive research methodologies. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 46:3. https://doi.org/10.17953/A3.1366 Nguyen, T., & Shapiro, J. (2023). Arts and Poetry in the Clinic: A Novel Approach toEnhancing Patient Care and Job Satisfaction. Annals of Family Medicine, 21(3), 284–284. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2965 Gertsman, Ene, I. C., Palmert, S., Liu, A., Makkar, M., Shao, I., Shapiro, J., & Williams, C.(2023). Clinical empathy as perceived by patients with chronic illness in Canada: aqualitative focus group study. CMAJ Open, 11(5), E859–E868.https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20220211 Lewis, & Shapiro, J. (2022). Speaking with Frankenstein. The Journal of MedicalHumanities, 43 (2). 267-282. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-020-09653-3 Jones, I., LoBasso, M., Shapiro, J., & Amin, A. (2022). A randomized,controlled study to assess if allopathic-osteopathic collaboration influences stereotypes, interprofessional readiness, and doctor-patient communication. PloS One, 17(12), e0278171–. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278171 McMullin, Rushing, S., Sueyoshi, M., & Salman, J. (2021). Reanimating the Body: ComicsCreation as an Embodiment of Life with Cancer. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 45(4), 775–794. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-020-09703-4 Shapiro, McMullin, J., Miotto, G., Nguyen, T., Hurria, A., & Nguyen, M. A. (2021). MedicalStudents’ Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation. The Journal of Medical Humanities, 42(4), 603–625. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09713-2 Rushing, & McMullin, J. (2021). Translation Without Medicalization: Ethnographic Notes onthe Planning and Development of a Health Humanities Program in California. In Anthropology in Medical Education (pp. 217–238). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62277-0_10 2010-2019 Juliet McMullin. (2019). Drawing the chemotherapy chair - HektoenInternational. Hektoen International - An online medical humanities journal. https://hekint.org/2019/05/21/drawing-the-chemotherapy-chair/ Shapiro, J., Youm, J., Kheriaty, A., Pham, T., Chen, Y., & Clayma, R. (2019). The humankindness curriculum: An innovative preclinical initiative to highlight kindness and empathy in medicine. Education for Health (Abingdon, England), 32(2), 53–61. https://doi.org/10.4103/efh.EfH_133_18 Le, A., Miller, K., and McMullin, J. From Particularities to Context: Refining Our Thinkingon Illness Narratives. American Medical Association Journal of Ethics. 2017,19(3):304-311. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.03.msoc1-1703 (invited paper). McMullin. (2016). Zombie Toxins: Abjection and Cancer’s Chemicals. In The Walking Med:Zombies and the Medical Image (p. 105–). Pennsylvania State UP. McMullin. (2016). Cancer and the Comics: Graphic Narratives and Biolegitimate Lives.Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 30(2), 149–167. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12172 Shapiro, J. (2016). Reflection across the curriculum. In Peterkin, A. & Brett-Maclean, P.(Eds.). Keeping reflection fresh : a practical guide for clinical educators. (273-276). Shapiro, Ortiz, D., Ree, Y. Y., & Sarwar, M. (2016). Medical students’ creative projects on athird year pediatrics clerkship: A qualitative analysis of patient-centeredness and emotional connection. BMC Medical Education, 16(1), 93–93. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0614-4 Shapiro, Nixon, L. L., Wear, S. E., & Doukas, D. J. (2015). Medical professionalism: What thestudy of literature can contribute to the conversation. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine : PEHM, 10(1), 10–10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-015-0030-0 Rucker, Shapiro, J., Fornwalt, C., Hundal, K., Reddy, S., Singson, Z., & Trieu, K. (2014).Using focus groups to understand causes for morale decline after introducing change in an IM residency program. BMC Medical Education, 14(1), 132–132. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-132 Shapiro. (2013). The feeling physician: educating the emotions in medical training.European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, 1(2), 310–.https://doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v1i2.664 Shapiro, J., Wiglesworth, A., & Morrison, E. H. (2013). Views on disclosing mistreatment: Afocus group study of differences between people with MS and their caregivers.Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 2(2), 96–102.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2012.09.006 Shapiro, J. (2012). Introduction. In Gross, P., & Guernsey, D. of Pulse – Voices from theHeart of Medicine. Retrieved from: https://johannashapiro.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Pulse-Voices-from-the-Heart-of-Medicine.pdf Shapiro. (2011). Perspective: Does Medical Education Promote Professional Alexithymia? ACall for Attending to the Emotions of Patients and Self in Medical Training. Academic Medicine, 86(3), 326–332.https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182088833 Afghani, Besimanto, S., Amin, A., & Shapiro, J. (2011). Medical students’ perspectives onclinical empathy training. Education for Health (Abingdon, England), 24(1), 544–544.https://doi.org/10.4103/1357-6283.101451 Shapiro. (2011). The Paradox of Teaching Empathy in Medical Education. In Empathy. TheMIT Press.https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262016612.003.0016 Shapiro. (2011). Innovations in Medical Education using the Humanities and Arts:Developing Physician Reflective Capacity and “Happiness.” Journal for Learning through the Arts, 7(1).https://doi.org/10.21977/D97110009 Shapiro, Bezzubova, E., & Koons, R. (2011). Medical students learn to tell stories about theirpatients and themselves. AMA Journal of Ethics, 13(7), 166–170.https://doi.org/10.1001/virtualmentor.2011.13.7.medu1-1107 Shapiro, J. (2011). Dancing Wheelchairs: An Innovative Way to Teach Medical Studentsabout Disability. The American Journal of Medicine, 124(9), 886–887.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.03.008 1999-2009 Najm, Lie, D., Shapiro, J., & Llenderrozos, H. J. (2009). Group medical visits as a teaching tool in a family medicine clerkship. Family Medicine, 41(9), 625–631. Shapiro. (2009). Medical Humanities Introduction. Journal for Learning through the Arts, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.21977/D95110037 McMullin, J. M., & Weiner, D. E. (2009). Confronting cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology. Shapiro. (2009). The inner world of medical students : listening to their voices in poetry. Johanna Shapiro, foreword by Howard F. Stein. Radcliffe. Shapiro. (2008). Walking a mile in their patients’ shoes: empathy and othering in medical students’ education. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine : PEHM, 3(1), 10–10. https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-3-10 Shapiro. (2007). Using literature and the arts to develop empathy in medical students. In Empathy in Mental Illness (pp. 473–494). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511543753.026 Shapiro. (2007). Literature and the arts in medical education. Family Medicine, 39(5), 317. Shapiro, Rucker, L., & Robitshek, D. (2006). Teaching the art of doctoring: an innovative medical student elective. Medical Teacher, 28(1), 30–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/01421590600568348 Shapiro. (2006). Listening to the voices of medical students in poetry: Self, patients, role-models and beyond. Journal of Poetry Therapy, 19(1), 17–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/08893670600565546 Shapiro, Rucker, L., Boker, J., & Lie, D. (2006). Point-of-view writing: A method for increasing medical students’ empathy, identification and expression of emotion, and insight. Education for Health (Abingdon, England), 19(1), 96–105. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576280500534776 Morrison, Shapiro, J. F., & Harthill, M. (2005). Resident doctors’ understanding of their roles as clinical teachers. Medical Education, 39(2), 137–144. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2929.2004.02063.x Lenahan, & Shapiro, J. (2005). Facilitating the emotional education of medical students: using literature and film in training about intimate partner violence. Family Medicine, 37(8), 543–545. Shapiro, J. (2005). Stories Medical Students Tell. Storytelling, Self, Society, 2(1). 48-61. Shapiro, Morrison, E., & Boker, J. (2004). Teaching Empathy to First Year Medical Students: Evaluation of an Elective Literature and Medicine Course. Education for Health (Abingdon, England), 17(1), 73–84.https://doi.org/10.1080/13576280310001656196 Shapiro, Monzo, L. D., Rueda, R., Gomez, J. A., & Blacher, J. (2004). Alienated Advocacy: Perspectives of Latina Mothers of Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities on Service Systems. Mental Retardation (Washington), 42(1), 37–54. https://doi.org/10.1352/0047-6765(2004)422.0.CO;2 Shapiro, & Lie, D. (2004). A comparison of medical students’ written expressions of emotion and coping and standardized patients’ ratings of student professionalism and communication skills. Medical Teacher, 26(8), 733–735. https://doi.org/10.1080/01421590400016431 Shapiro, J., Mosqueda, L., & Botros, D. (2003). A caring partnership: Expectations of aging persons with disabilities for their primary care doctors. Family Practice, 20(6), 635–641. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmg603 Shapiro. (2002). How Do Physicians Teach Empathy in the Primary Care Setting? Academic Medicine, 77(4), 323–328. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200204000-00012 Prislin, M., Lie, D., Shapiro, J., Boker, J., Radecki, S. (2001). Standardized Patients– Will the Questions Never End? Using Standardized Patients to Assess Medical Students’ Professionalism. Academic Medicine, 76 (10). Shapiro J. Eyes wide shut: Teaching about persons with disabilities to medical students. Kaleidoscope, 42: 36-45, Jan 2000. Radecki, Shapiro, J., Thrupp, L. D., Gandhi, S. M., Sangha, S. S., & Miller, R. B. (1999). Willingness to Treat HIV-Positive Patients at Different Stages of Medical Education and Experience. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 13(7), 403–414. https://doi.org/10.1089/apc.1999.13.403 Presentations Presentation content coming soon.