Arts Medicine: Its Origins By John Graham-Pole I’ll start with two very recent quotes I just heard: Pope Leo XIV: “ART is not some kind of superfluous luxury that can be eliminated from our lives. It is a crucial part of the human experience” Tony Morello, lead guitarist for Raging Against the Machine: “Every […]
by Dorothy Lander Inspired by Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College history professor, and her daily newsletter (Letters from an American), which connects breaking political news directly to past eras in American history, I decided to write my own letter in response to the shattered Canada-America relations evolving from the executive orders of US President Trump […]
by John Graham-Pole Wellcome Collection Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0028932.html It’s the very first day of January 1967. My first internal medicine internship begins this frosty Monday morning under the shades of St. Paul’s Cathedral in the city of London. Right now it’s 7:46 AM and I’m making my familiar way from the medical college across West Smithfield […]
By Dorothy Lander In a recent posting on LinkedIn, Tye Farrow introduced his doctoral research and the concept of Architectural Determinants of Health (AD0H) as the health-causing features and patterns of placemaking that translate and extend social, structural, and environmental determinants, showing how purposeful design choices become practical levers to support health and wellbeing. In […]
Sir Joseph and me, September 2024, Thinkers’ Lodge, Pugwash, Nova Scotia In 2010, Dorothy and I were visiting our stepdaughter Cathy in Pugwash in Northern Nova Scotia, where she was living in the Sunset Community, a centre for people with disabilities. We came upon her pulling weeds outside the library and we ventured inside. My […]
