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ArticleThe Journal of medical humanities2020

A Look Back and a Path Forward: Poetry's Healing Power during the Pandemic.

David Haosen Xiang, Alisha Moon Yi

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Article in The Journal of medical humanities, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David Haosen XiangHarvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA, 02115, United States. dxiang@hms.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8363-2438
Alisha Moon YiHarvard College, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Harvard College Observatory · USHarvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This discussion seeks to highlight the ability of poetry to combat loneliness, a growing public health problem with significant negative health outcomes that potentially impact millions of Americans. We argue that poetry can play a very relevant role and have an impact in medicine. Through a brief literature review of previous studies on poetry in medicine, we demonstrate that poetry can not only combat loneliness but can also play important roles in helping patients, physicians, and other healthcare professionals/providers. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we believe now is the perfect opportunity to utilize poetry because the benefits can be experienced even in solitude, which is why this is such a timely and pertinent issue today.

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Adaptation, PsychologicalPoetry as TopicBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansLonelinessPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2ConnectionHealingLonelinessPoetrySocial isolation

Identifiers

PMID32845422
PMCPMC7447694
OpenAlexW3081383499

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