Sponsored by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, The Brown Journal of Medical Humanities is a new, undergraduate-run publication that spotlights the emerging field of medical humanities, broadly defined as the interdisciplinary, humanistic, and cultural study of illness, healthcare, and the body. The journal will cover a host of related fields, including narrative medicine, bioethics, disability studies, and more. Radically interdisciplinary and egalitarian in nature, the medical humanities connect experts in different fields, as well as patients, caregivers, and others involved in the medical encounter, providing a space for representations of experiences and meaning-making by bridging different backgrounds. Through this critical reflection, we aim to highlight new perspectives and offer insights otherwise overlooked. We also hope to underline the many ways in which medicine is a creative act, provoked by the uncertainty, ambiguity, and complexity at the heart of any clinical decision-making that fully engages the human condition in its many dimensions.
