The Intima publishes articles from a variety of perspectives exploring Narrative Medicine and its applications in healthcare and healing.  Narrative Medicine is interdisciplinary, and we encourage entries that engage any of the following:

• medicine in literature and/or poetry
• biomedical ethics
• history of medicine and/or science
• music
• religious and/or spiritual perspectives on medicine
• healthcare communication
• medical or biological anthropology
• sociology of medicine
• cross-cultural approaches to medicine
• medicine as represented in the visual arts and film

• Fiction, Short Fiction
• Non-Fiction: personal narratives or perspectives on medicine
• Field Notes: perspectives on Narrative Medicine in clinical settings
• Poetry
• Scholarly essays or articles geared towards educating a general audience about Narrative Medicine
• Studio Art, in any medium such as paintings, photographs, or prints
• Visual or Audio Multimedia

Subject areas might include but are not limited to:

• Personal narratives of illness from the patient and/or clinician
• Narratives of public health, epidemics, or  the globalization of disease
• Analyses of historical or contemporary representations of illness and
• The body in literature, art, popular culture, and the media
• Discourse on the role of narrative in the healthcare reform debate

For information, consult http://www.theintima.org/submission-guidelines/
Please feel free to contact editor@theintima.org with questions.