Aims & Scope
Survive Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine aims to provide opportunities for sharing research, artistic work, poetry, pedagogical dialogue, and the practice of Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine. The journal serves its mission in education and the practice of Humanities as they relate to illness, injury, and trauma. This opens the journal to submissions across the diversity of human experience. One of the primary aims of the journal is to bring Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine to patients, survivors, and caregivers. While aware of and supporting professional medical education, the journal is most concerned with an audience broader than a medical or academic audience. We encourage physicians and others in the Medical Profession to practice Narrative as Medicine by submitting their work, especially when it encourages them to be artists – visual, performance, and literary. We encourage survivors, their caregivers, and those working in advocacy to share their experiences. This act of sharing can foster the healing of others through the power of poetry and story. The scope of the journal is eclectic. Submissions undergo double-blind peer review, often both by scholars and by those who have experienced or worked with the topic of the submission. This process ensures both literary and scholarly quality and a kind of truth to the human experience.