There are many journals that accept narrative writing in a medical context, but they are not always easy to find. Below is a table from a recent paper by Charon, Ship, and Asch, which they adapted from a blog post by Louise Aronson. This table lists many journals that accept articles in the medical humanities, but there are others; many specialty journals have adopted narrative medicine sections (for example, Practical Radiation Oncology, which may not at first sound like fertile ground for narrative medicine, has recently expanded its Narrative Oncology section, and JAMA Oncology has an active narrative section entitled “Cancer Care Chronicles”).
The table below is taken from “Arts, Humanities, Medicine, and Discovery: a Creative Calling,” by Rita Charon, MD, Amy Ship, MD, and Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH, J Gen Intern Med, 2019.
Medical journals | Medical literary journals |
---|---|
Academic Medicine | Abaton |
Medicine and the Arts | Ars Medica |
Teaching and Learning Moments | Atrium |
American Journal of Kidney Disease | Bellevue Literary Review |
In a few words | Blood and Thunder |
Annals of Internal Medicine | Daedalus |
Perspective | The Examined Life |
On Being a Doctor | The Healing Muse |
On Being a Patient | Hektoen International |
British Medical Journal | Hospital Drive |
Personal Views | The Intima |
Fillers | The Pegasus Review |
Canadian Medical Association Journal | The Pharos |
Humanities | Pulse |
Salon | The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine |
Family Medicine | |
Narrative Essays | |
Health Affairs | |
Narrative Essays | |
Journal of American Medical Association | |
A Piece of My Mind | |
Viewpoint | |
Poetry and Medicine | |
Journal of the American Geriatric Society | |
Old Lives Tales | |
Journal of General Internal Medicine | |
Perspectives | |
Healing Arts | |
Materia Medica | |
Text and Context | |
New England Journal of Medicine | |
Perspective | |
Neurology |
Charon et al included the following caption underneath the table: Adapted with gratitude and permission from a blog post by Louise Aronson:
https://louisearonson.com/writing-about-medicine-where-to-read-and-submit/
For another list see:
http://med.stanford.edu/medicineandthemuse/ProgramLinks.html