General – Health Humanities
Health, Arts & Humanities Program, University of Toronto http://health-humanities.com/
Canadian Association of Health Humanities https://www.cahh.ca/
Literature, Arts and Medicine database
The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine by Charon, et al.
At the Membranes of Care: Stories in Narrative Medicine. Rita Charon. Academic Medicine, 2012. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292868/
Narrative Medicine, Narrative Humility by Sayantani DasGupta https://creativenonfiction.org/writing/narrative-medicine-narrative-humility/
The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics by Arthur Frank
Why Doctors’ Stories Matter by Arthur Frank. Canadian Family Physician https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809180/
Bringing Home the Health Humanities: Narrative Humility, Structural Competency, and Engaged Pedagogy. Rebecca K. Tseva et al.
Shapiro J. Illness narratives: reliability, authenticity and the empathic witness. Medical Humanities 2011;37:68-72.
The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland by Cheryl Mattingly
Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies
A History of the Present Illness: Stories by Louise Aronson
Narrative Gerontology in Research and Practice
The Institute for Poetic Medicine https://poeticmedicine.org/
Pulse Journal – voices from the heart of medicine https://pulsevoices.org/
Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts & Humanities https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal
The Examined Life Journal, University of Iowa Carter School of Medicine http://theexaminedlifejournal.com/
Literature and Medicine https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/literature-and-medicine
Rafael Campo – poet/physician https://www.rafaelcampo.com/
Theresa Brown, RN https://theresabrownrn.com/
Narrative Medicine Reading List (500) Good Reads https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/narrative-medicine
Narrative Texts
13 Poems about Chronic Illness https://www.bustle.com/p/13-poems-about-the-experience-of-chronic-illness-15895482
List of Medical Memoirs https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/medical-memoirs-6009897#1
Poems about Sickness, Illness & Recovery https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/145189/poems-of-illness-5a319c160b730
On Being Podcast – ‘Experience Poetry’ and ‘Poetry Unbound’
Poem – ‘Kindness’ by Naomi Shihab Nye
Poems used in mindfulness-based stress reduction programs https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/fmph/research/mindfulness/mindfulness-resources/Pages/Mindful-Poetry.aspx
Creative Writing
Creative Non Fiction Journal https://creativenonfiction.org/what-is-cnf/
Writing Alone and With Others: Basic Principles of a Healthy Workshop by Pat Schneider
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Writing down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr, 2018.
Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr, 2003.
Curriculum Resources
Winkel AF. Narrative Medicine: A Writing Workshop Curriculum for Residents. MedEdPORTAL. 2016;12:10493.
Chretien, K.C., Swenson, R., Yoon, B. et al. Tell Me Your Story: A Pilot Narrative Medicine Curriculum During the Medicine Clerkship. J GEN INTERN MED 30, 1025–1028 (2015).
Health Humanities in Post-Graduate Medical Education edited by Allan D. Peterkin and Anna Skorzewska.