Kintsugi
Keywords:
Poetry, medical humanities, Art in Medicine, Suicide, Nightshift, Kintsugi, hopeAbstract
Discarded lives, like broken
porcelain, always look pristine
along the fracture lines—
they glitter in the morning sun:
Discarded lives, like broken
porcelain, always look pristine
along the fracture lines—
they glitter in the morning sun:
Paula Heister is Bye Fellow and Teaching Associate in Medicine at Downing College, Cambridge.
About the Journal
Ars Medica is one of Canada’s first health humanities journals. Launched in 2004, we transitioned in 2014 to a web-only format. Ars Medica provides an online venue for dialogue, meaning-making, and the representation of experiences of the body, health, wellness, and encounters within the medical system. Content includes narratives from patients and health care workers, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We also include sections on writing by and about children, international health, and other voices routinely silenced in the healthcare system.