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Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

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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]

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Background

The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine provides international awards for unpublished poems in English by any living poet. There are seven main awards in the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Three awards are given for international health students or international Health Service-related professionals, including clinicians, educators, researchers, and biomedical scientists. Three awards are given for open international entries. The International Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets was launched in 2012, and is also given for an unpublished poem on a medical theme.[2]
The Hippocrates Prize is awarded at an annual international conference on poetry and medicine.

The 2010 and 2011 International Conferences on Poetry and Medicine and Hippocrates Awards generated the International Hippocrates Research Forum for Poetry and Medicine.[3]

The Hippocrates poetry and medicine initiative was awarded the 2011 Times Higher Education award for Excellence and Innovation.[4][5][6]

Hippocrates Prize conferences

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. PMID 20333814. S2CID 28603503.
  2. Singer, Donald RJ. "Hippocrates Prize". Homepage. Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  3. "Education news, resources and university jobs for the academic world". Times Higher Education. 17 June 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
  4. Cunnane, Sarah (25 November 2011). "Sheffield named 'University of the Year' at annual THE Awards". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
  5. Hulse, Michael W.; Singer, Donald RJ (2018). "Poetry, medicine and the 2018 Hippocrates prize". Health Policy and Technology. 7 (3): 230–232. doi:10.1016/j.hlpt.2018.07.006. S2CID 191489967.

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