Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Founded 2009
Founders Donald Singer and Michael Hulse
Type Health, humanities, history, education
Focus Poetry and medicine
Website www.hippocrates-poetry.org

The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was founded in 2009 by Donald Singer and Michael Hulse. The founders "wished to draw together national and international perspectives on three major historical and contemporary themes uniting the disciplines of poetry and medicine: medicine as inspiration for the writings of poets; effects of poetic creativity on the experience of illness by patients, their families, friends, and carers; and poetry as therapy".[1]

Background

One award is given for British health students and National Health Service-related professionals, including educators, researchers, and biomedical scientists. The International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an international award for unpublished poems in English by any living poet. The International Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets was launched in 2012, also given for an unpublished poem on a medical theme.[2]

The Hippocrates poetry and medicine initiative was awarded the 2011 Times Higher Education award for Excellence and Innovation.[3][4][5]

The 2010 and 2011 International Symposia on Poetry and Medicine and Hippocrates Awards generated the International Hippocrates Research Forum for Poetry and Medicine.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Singer, Donald RJ; Michael Hulse (2010). "Poetry, medicine, and the International Hippocrates Prize". The Lancet 375 (9719): 976–977. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60427-8. ISSN 0140-6736.
  2. ↑ Singer, Donald RJ. "Hippocrates Prize". Homepage. Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine.
  3. ↑ "Education news, resources and university jobs for the academic world". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
  4. ↑ Cunnane, Sarah. "Sheffield named ‘University of the Year’ at annual THE Awards". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
  5. ↑ "Warwick team inspired poetry competition win the Arts in the 2011 Times Higher Education awards, announced on 24 November 2011 in London.ns national award". .warwick.ac.uk. 2011-11-28. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
  6. ↑ "International Hippocrates Research Forum for Poetry and Medicine". Go.warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2012-05-13.

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