2nd Annual Visibly Human Symposium

“With the Beloved’s
Water of Life, No Illness Remains:
Islam, the Body and Illness –
a case study from film”

location: Education 2 South, room 1102
from: 1:30 –4 pm
reception: Health Sciences Library’s Reading Room
from: 4 -5 pm

sponsored by:
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Health Sciences Library and the Arts and Humanities
in Healthcare Program at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities

National Results of the Health Care Community Discussion

On December 30th, 2008, the Health Sciences Library hosted a Health Care Community Discussion in response to a call from the Obama Transition Team’s request to hold a conversation about health care reform. The moderators submitted a report of the discussion to the Transition Team web site. You can read an abridged version of the report from the library’s web site along with the results of a brief survey.

The national results are now available at Healthreform.gov. Americans expressed serious concerns regarding health care in the new report  and web site released by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report, Americans Speak on Health Reform: Report on Health Care  Community Discussions, summarizes comments from the thousands of Americans who hosted and participated in the discussions across the country and highlights the need for immediate action to reform health care.

The Human Touch

The Human Touch 2009 Literary and Arts Anthology Available Now at AMC Bookstore

Please pick up your FREE copy of THE HUMAN TOUCH 2009 at the Information Desk of the Anschutz Medical Campus Bookstore, Building 500, 1^st Floor.

THE HUMAN TOUCH is the literary and arts anthology of the Anschutz Medical Campus of UC Denver. The Human Touch strives to develop and nurture skills of observation, analysis, empathy, and self-reflection to promote humane medical care, by offering an outlet for the creative expression of the connection between patients, family, and health care professionals. Writings and artworks foster an understanding of cultural and social contexts of the individual experience of illness and the way medicine is practiced. Editors are students in the School of Medicine, staff and faculty of the Anschutz Medical Campus. Authors and artists are students, staff, health professionals, and patients from the University of Colorado community.

This publication is being offered FREE to members of the community through the generous support of the President’s Fund for the Humanities and the School of Medicine. The Human Touch is produced by the Medical Humanities Program (H. N. Claman, M.D., Director) of the Anschutz Medical Campus Center for Bioethics and Humanities.

A copy of the anthology is also available for checkout at the Health Sciencws Library, in the Drs. Henry and Janet Claman Medical Humanities Collection. The collection is located in the 3^rd Floor Special Collections Room, call number WZ 350 U58h 2009  v. Another copy can be checked out from the Auraria Library, 2^nd Floor, call number R702 .H86  v.2.