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.
- Ventres, W. B., Stone, L. A., Shapiro, J. F., Haq, C., Leão, J. R. B., Nease, D. E., Grant, L., Mercer, S. W., Gillies, J. C. M., Blasco, P. G., De Benedetto, M. A. C., Moreto, G., Levites, M. R., DeVoe, J. E., Phillips, W. R., Uygur, J. M., Egnew, T. R., & Stanley, C. S. (2024). Storylines of family medicine V: ways of thinking—honing the therapeutic self. Family Medicine and Community Health, 12(Suppl 3), e002792-. https://doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2024-002792
- 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
- Taking the next step: How student reflective essays about difficult clinical encounters demonstrate professional identity formation Freeman N, Shapiro J, Paguio M, Lorkalantari Y, Nguyen A. Clin Teach. 2024 Aug 14:e13795. doi: 10.1111/tct.13795. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39140290.
- Making the Invisible and Private, Seen and Public: Roundtable Conversation on the Potentials of Graphic Medicine for Public History. Noe, Matthew., Bayoumi, Soha., Garcia Amor, Eugenia., McMullin, Juliet., Williams, Ian. International Public History. https://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2024-2013
- 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
- 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