The COVID Pandemic: Essays, Book Reviews, and Poems

The COVID Pandemic: Selected Work.- Planetary Health Humanities-Responding to COVID Times.- Placing the Blame: What If "They" REALLY Are Responsible?.- COVID-19, Contagion, and Vaccine Optimism.- Sinophobic Epidemics in America: Historical Discontinuity in Disease-related Yellow Peril Imaginaries of the Past and Present.- Letting Go of Familiar Narratives as Tragic Optimism in the Era of COVID-19.- Masks in Medicine: Metaphors and Morality.- Reading for Pandemic: Viral Modernism by Elizabeth Outka, New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.- The Health Humanities and Camus's the Plague, Edited by Woods Nash, Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2019.- Love in the Time of COVID.- Inflorescence of Mistrust.- "A Sick Child is Always the Mother's Property": The Jane Austen Pediatric Trauma Management Protocol.- Beside Oneself with Rage: The Doubled Self as Metaphor in a Narrative of Brain Injury with Emotional Dysregulation.- Virile Infertile Men, and Other Representations of In/Fertile Hegemonic Masculinity in Fiction Television Series.- Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities.- The Ethic of Responsibility: Max Weber's Verstehen and Shared Decision-Making in Patient-Centred Care.- When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by Ryan T Anderson.- The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing by Martina Zimmermann, London, UK: Palgrave McMillan, 2017.- The Art of Death by Edwidge Dandicat, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2017.

Therese (Tess) Jones is Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.  She is a Professor in the Department of Medicine.  Jones is the editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities ; lead editor for the Health Humanities Reader  (Rutgers University Press 2014); and co-editor of the upcoming Handbook on Health and Media (under contract with Routledge Publishing).  She teaches health humanities and disability studies in the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy and the Physical Therapy and Physician Assistants Programs.  She developed the undergraduate Health Humanities Minor for the University of Colorado Denver and the Graduate Certificate in Health Humanities and Ethics.  She is involved with the American Association of Medical College's initiative on the humanities and arts in medical education and has and is serving on sub-committees to design and implement the new Trek Curriculum in the School of Medicine.      
Katheen Pachucki is the editorial assistant of the Journal of Medical Humanities and divides her time and expertise between JMH and a publication from the American Society of Microbiology.