The Changing Narrative Medicine Workshop: Finding New Uses for and New Ways to Use Narrative Medicine The narrative medicine workshop, as a structure and method, differentiates narrative medicine as an applied discipline within the larger field of the health humanities. In the narrative medicine Master’s programs at Columbia University and the University of Southern…
Author: Jonathan Chou
Grief, Denial, and Racial Violence in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Part III)
Jonathan Chou // For Part I: I become inscrutable to myself For Part II: No sacrifice is excessive III. Finding a relational home In the previous section, I argued that the war metaphor engenders a derealizing self and other relation that precludes the realization of our interdependency and the ethics of nonviolence conditioned by…
Grief, Denial, and Racial Violence in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Part II)
Jonathan Chou // For Part I: I become inscrutable to myself For Part III: Finding a relational home II. No sacrifice is excessive If we are to demand that grief be made into a resource for politics, we must demand to be allowed to feel grief, to feel the way in which when I lose…
Grief, Denial, and Racial Violence in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Part I)
Jonathan Chou // This article in three parts is adapted from a critical theory essay that I wrote in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020. It feels strange and even a little unbelievable that I wrote that essay then; the words “manic defense” and “intellectualization” come to mind. It is clear…
His Wife (No. 8847)
Jonathan Chou // His Wife (No. 8847) History from wife. The water came in through painted rain pipes. It was not paint but a daub of lard on his wife’s dress. She didn’t remove it after all.1 Things didn’t go smoothly. Furniture had to be wiped off. Elix. Iron Phos. Quin. & Strych. Smash the…