Anne Hudson Jones
My primary interests and experience are in the areas of literature and medicine, interdisciplinary medical humanities, and the arts in clinical education and practice. My current research interests focus on narratives of medical catastrophes, caused by pandemics such as Covid-19 or by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, earthquake in Haiti, and nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The complex interdependencies of medicine, science, and technology with narrative, music, poetry, and art that are so important in responding to such catastrophic events have been at the core of the intellectual work and inquiry the SLSA has fostered since its inception as SLS. I believe it is more important now than ever to strengthen the connections between the scholarly work in medical and health humanities with that of SLSA members, and I want to help make that happen.
Anne Hudson Jones is the Hobby Family Professor in the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, where she is Director of the Medical Humanities Track in the School of Medicine. She is a founding editor and former editor-in-chief of Literature and Medicine. Her articles on literature and medicine, narratives of illness, and narrative ethics have been published widely in medical and humanities journals such as Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, and The Lancet, as well as in Journal of Medical Humanities, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and Theoretical Medicine.