Dr Wendy A. Stewart joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Sophia Miao: “Songwriting and Youth Self-Concept."

Dr Roma Subramanian joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Matthew J. Brooks: “How a Medical Orchestra Cultivates Creativity, Joy, Empathy, and Connection.”

Robin N. Richardson joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Megan Hildebrandt and Joy Scanlon: “Activating Empathy Through Art in Cancer Communities.”

Sofie Layton joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Jo Wray, Victoria Walsh, and Giovanni Biglino: “What Arts-and-Health Practices Teach Us About Participation, Re-presentation, and Risk.”

John Davies joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Sue Ridge: "Art and Poetry in an NHS Hospital’s Elevator Bank."

The Aesthetics of Health undergraduate visual art course at the University of Texas at Austin was designed to enhance art students’ awareness of cancer’s impact.

The George Washington University has taken the lead in preparing trainees to meet patients’ spiritual needs by integrating spirituality into its curriculum, developing a training program for teaching interprofessional spiritual care, and designing spirituality-related competency behaviors.

Narrative medicine—particularly, writing 55-word stories—can be used to teach medical students self-reflection, ethical awareness, and resilience.

The 3 drawings in this series illustrate how patients’ fears and suffering—generated by dental pain, chemotherapy, or lack of health insurance—can be counterbalanced by the foundational ethical principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for autonomy, and justice.