Deliverables
Sharing the outcomes of Catalyzing H.E.A.L. Medicine
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Canadian Association of Health Humanities (CAHH) Creating Space 14. de Leeuw, S., Goldin Stahl, D. “Let’s get critical: The ‘Scholarship’ competency, CanMEDS, the 2025 emerging concepts of physician humanism, and research with medical students who reviewed health humanities initiatives from around the world.” Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. In-Person. April 2024.
Quadruple Aim & Equity End-of-Grant Workshop. de Leeuw, S., Goldin Stahl, D. “Critical Health Humanities for Health Equity in Canada?” Online. November 2023.
5th Congress of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research. de Leeuw, S., Goldin Stahl, D., Sebring, J. “Catalyzing H.E.A.L. Project: Searching for Decolonial Criticality in Health Humanities Pedagogy.” Durham University and Wellcome Trust. Online. April 2023.
Canadian Association of Health Humanities (CAHH) Creating Space 13. de Leeuw, S., Goldin Stahl, D. Sebring, J. “Catalyzing H.E.A.L. Project: Searching for Decolonial Criticality in Health Humanities Pedagogy.” Quebec City. In-person. April 2023.
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Artful Medicine. de Leeuw, S., Goldin Stahl., D. “Catalyzing H.E.A.L.: A Scoping Review of Decolonial and Critical Health Humanities.” Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO. Online. October 2023.
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Medical // Humanities Volumes I & II. Artist’s Book. 11.5” x 7.” Encaustic transfer on silk. 2024.
Medical // Humanities Volumes I, II, & III. Installation. 6’ x 3.’ Encaustic transfer on silk and embroidery hoops. 2024.
See below for more details.
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Medical // Humanities Volumes I & II
Designed, printed, and bound by Darian Goldin Stahl. Artist’s Book. 11.5” x 7.” Edition of 5. Encaustic transfer on silk. 2024.
This artist’s book invites readers to grasp the questions, frustrations, and potential of integrating arts-based methodologies with medical education. It contains two volumes hinged around a central cover. The first volume pieces together the structure and outcomes of Dr. Sarah de Leeuw’s Catalyzing H.E.A.L. Medicine project, a scoping literature review in search of decoloniality in peer-reviewed medical humanities publications from the 1970’s to today. The second volume contains clippings from the presentation, Productive Tensions in Medical Humanities, which was the result of research carried out by Hannah Barnard-Chumik under the supervision of Dr. Suze Berkhout and Dr. Julia Gray. This presentation reviews the transformation of medical humanities toward a more critical perspectives, and how this shift sits in tension with the role that the humanities are imagined to play in medical education. Throughout both volumes, a window is punctured through the centre of each page and cover. This rupture creates space yet obscures the arts-based research that remains stubbornly in the margins of medical education.
Medical // Humanities is constructed in a Do-Si-Do format that opens from both the front and the back. It is bound in cloth taken from both hospital gowns and scrubs, and the interior images contain scans of laboratory equipment cascading around the central window. The pages are printed using an encaustic toner transfer technique onto silk, which renders them nearly transparent. The sheer materiality of the pages also enables the readers’ hands to join the composition.
The double-book construction speaks to the persistent dualistic qualities of medical humanities, while the translucency attempts to merge the disciplines. The window can be seen as an attempt to bridge both sides, though the deletions may only add to the frustrations of merging academic paradigms. However, by inviting the viewer to shift the transparent layers across the spines of the book, new compositions and meanings may emerge. The mix of imagery and materiality implicates medical personnel, scientists, patients, and the general public within the stakes of developing more integrated models of medical humanities.
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Medical // Humanities Volumes I, II, & III
Installation by Darian Goldin Stahl. 6’ x 3.’ Encaustic transfer on silk. 2024.
Donation to the University Health Network Health Sciences Library. Toronto General Hospital.
This installation invites readers to grasp the questions, frustrations, and potential of integrating arts-based methodologies with medical education. It contains three volumes. The first volume pieces together the structure and outcomes of the Catalyzing H.E.A.L. Medicine project, a scoping literature review led by Dr. Sarah de Leeuw in search of decoloniality in peer-reviewed medical humanities publications from the 1970’s to today. It also contains clippings from Productive Tensions in Medical Humanities, a presentation of a larger literature review study, Medical Education and the Critical Turn in the Health Humanities: A Social History and Mapping Study led by Dr. Suze Berkhout. This project examines the transformation of the field of medical humanities toward a more critical health humanities and how this transformation sits in tension with the role that the humanities are imagined to play in medical education. The second volume features arrangements of colorful scientific ephemera. The third volume is a wrinkled hospital gown, who wordlessly sits between the two speakers.
Medical // Humanities Volumes I, II, & III is printed using an encaustic toner transfer technique onto silk, which renders them nearly transparent. A window is also punctured through the centre of each quilted section. Although the windows and sheer materiality enable the viewer to glimpse the volumes through one another, the deletions may only add to the frustrations of merging medical and humanities paradigms. Next, the circular embroidery hoop frames simultaneously reference the scientist’s view through the microscope as well as life beyond the clinic doors. Taken together, the mix of imagery and materiality implicates medical personnel, scientists, patients, and the general public within the stakes of developing more integrated models of medical humanities.