{"id":7748,"date":"2024-08-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/?p=7748"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:33:15","slug":"ui-libraries-digital-scholarship-publishing-studio-announces-launch-of-health-story-hub-neh-awarded-digital-project-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2024\/08\/12\/ui-libraries-digital-scholarship-publishing-studio-announces-launch-of-health-story-hub-neh-awarded-digital-project-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio launches Health Story Hub, NEH-awarded digital project collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The University of Iowa Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio (DSPS) has launched a unique digital resource for educators, students, and community members. Health Story Hub<\/em> is an open access website<\/a> that offers a searchable database of stories about health, illness, and healing for teachers to use in classrooms, community groups and clinics.<\/p>\n

Kristine Mu\u00f1oz, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa, and Daena Goldsmith, associate dean for faculty development and professor of rhetoric and media studies at Lewis & Clark College, received a $150,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Initiatives grant for their collaborative project titled, \u201cSalud, to your Health! Resources for Teaching Health Narratives in English and Spanish.\u201d The grant also supports developing a literary journal for undergraduate students to publish health narratives written in Spanish.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur proposal for the project drew on years of research that shows how powerful stories are for patients, providers, caregivers, and family members whenever they\u2019re dealing with health issues, whether those are physical or mental health,\u201d says Mu\u00f1oz. \u201cStorytelling is how we make sense of what happens to us, and part of healing is finding that human connection to others.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three-year project, which began in 2022, is a multi-institutional collaboration to create a digital database of course materials, workshops, and other resources for developing and teaching courses in narrative medicine and health humanities in English and Spanish. By supporting those who teach courses and workshops, the project encourages students and participants to learn from reading others\u2019 stories or to write their own. DSPS worked in cooperation with the co-Principal Investigators to design, plan, and implement the Health Story Hub site and journal platform.<\/p>\n

Goldsmith said the idea for the site grew out of collaborating with Mu\u00f1oz as they each taught courses on health stories.\u00a0 \u201cWe thought, wouldn\u2019t it be nice to be able to take the things that we\u2019ve learned from teaching in university and community settings and make those resources available to anybody who\u2019s looking for readings, writing prompts, or assignments,\u201d says Goldsmith.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve had a very positive response. The stories on our site have some complexity that can prompt discussion.\u00a0 People have also been excited about having a place where those of us doing this work in lots of different communities or institutions can connect and share resources with one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Health Story Hub and Salud, to your Health! Resources for Teaching Health Narratives in English and Spanish project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the<\/em> National Endowment for the Humanities: Humanities Initiatives<\/a>. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this article and on the Health Story Hub page, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Iowa Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio (DSPS) has launched a unique digital resource for educators, students, and community members. Health Story Hub is an open access website that offers a searchable database of stories about health, illness, and healing for teachers to use in classrooms, community groups and clinics. Kristine Mu\u00f1oz,Continue reading “UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio launches Health Story Hub, NEH-awarded digital project collaboration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":7749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[23,72,73,74],"syndication":[75,30,21,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7768,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions\/7768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}