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  • Genre:MEDICAL
  • SubGenre:Education & Training
  • Language:English
  • Pages:442
  • eBook ISBN:9781936994144

Rx/Museum: 52 Essays on Art and Reflection in Medicine

by Lyndsay Hoy and Aaron Levy

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Overview
Rx/Museum brings the museum experience to the clinician with 52 artworks from the collections of our partnering arts institutions. An invitation to find meaning through the everyday ritual of arts engagement, this publication seeks to galvanize deep and sustained reflection about the power of the arts and humanities in times of crisis. In these pages, the arts reveal themselves as integral to fostering humanistic learning and growth in medicine, as well as meaningful connection and shared experience within medicine and beyond.
Description
Rx/Museum brings the museum experience to the clinician with 52 artworks from the collections of our partnering arts institutions. An invitation to find meaning through the everyday ritual of arts engagement, this publication seeks to galvanize deep and sustained reflection about the power of the arts and humanities in times of crisis. In these pages, the arts reveal themselves as integral to fostering humanistic learning and growth in medicine, as well as meaningful connection and shared experience within medicine and beyond.
About the author

Dr. Hoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologist's (ASA) Committee on Physician Well-being, the department wellness champion for both the Perelman School of Medicine Faculty Wellness Committee and the Graduate Medical Education Wellness Committee. She is a co-lead for Penn Women in Anesthesiology, faculty co-director of Rx/Museum, and a Board Director for The LAM Foundation. She is a Harvard Macy fellow and recently completed the Stanford Physician Well-being Director course and the Empowering Women Physicians coaching program. Her non-clinical work focuses on physician well-being, rare disease research advocacy, and supporting non-traditional career paths in medicine.

Aaron Levy, PhD, is the Director of Health Humanities Initiatives at Penn Medicine, where he directs the Penn Medicine Listening Lab and co-directs the Rx/Museum initiative.  He is also a Senior Lecturer in English and History of Art in the School of Arts and Sciences; Director of the Health Ecologies Lab in the School of Social Policy & Practice; and Executive Director and Senior Curator of Public Trust, a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning and collaboration on behalf of struggles for justice and equality. He has edited several books, including On Listening as a Form of Care (2020) and The Language of Care: Stories from the Penn Medicine Listening Lab (2021).