The Medicine & the Muse Program is the home for the arts and humanities at the medical school, with programs that support diversity and integrate the arts and humanities into medical education, scholarly endeavors, and the practice of medicine.

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“In this biomedical revolution, we need the humanities now more than ever.”

-Lloyd B. Minor, MD, Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/04/06/the-humanities-and-medicine/

Program Features and News

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7/30/2019 A break to remember: Stanford faculty reminisce about their college summers features Medicine & the Muse Director Dr. Audrey Shafer 

7/29/2019 Radiolab, G: The World's Smartest Animal, Writer in Residence Dr. Laurel Braitman competes against two comedians to find the world’s smartest animal. What results is a series of funny, delightful stories about unexpectedly smart animals and a shift in the way we think about intelligence across all the animals - including us. 

KQED Perspectives, Duck Syndrome, by Arifeen Rahman

Arifeen is a medical student representative on the Medicine & the Muse Steering Community and a concentrator in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities 

Candice Kim, Emerging Scholar Award at the 9th International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society,September 2019

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All of the events, news, and updates related to the Frankenstein@200 initative. 

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Dermatology inspired works created for the 2018 International Health Humanities Conference, themed  "Frankenstein@200" by Nick Love. 

More of Nick Love's work can be viewed online here.

Stanford News Center: Mixed-media mosaics of the human body, inspired by Frankenstein 

Weds Night Writes
Every 3rd Weds, resuming October 2019
6:30pm-8:30pm
SCBE Conference Room (1215 Welch Rd., Modular A)