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THE<br />
HEALING<br />
PROCESS<br />
Getting at the heart of medicine<br />
5 th Edition
A Letter from the Editors…<br />
Dear Readers,<br />
Thank you for picking up the fifth edition of<br />
The Healing Process! It’s been a long year<br />
and a half since we have released our last<br />
edition, but we hope you might see the<br />
breadth and depth of creative energy,<br />
emotion, and intellect that we have the<br />
privilege of presenting to you now.<br />
If this is your first time seeing The Healing<br />
Process, we hope you might be as<br />
captivated as we were when we first<br />
encountered it. Since 2012, this special<br />
magazine has uncovered the intricate link<br />
between medicine and humanity, art and<br />
science. The infinitely talented artists and<br />
writers who contribute to our publication<br />
explore how humans occupy and<br />
understand their space in a world of<br />
constant scientific and medical discovery,<br />
redefining what we might consider science,<br />
disease, art, or healing.<br />
The cover for this edition is a submission<br />
from Alana Barrett. The artist used a<br />
microscope and camera to display the<br />
appearance of food items from a new<br />
perspective. These photographs were then<br />
used as models to create abstract<br />
representations of the food items in a<br />
collection of works entitled “Micro Lab.”<br />
The cover photo is entitled “Yogurt and<br />
Granola,” made from pins, thread,<br />
embroidery floss, quilled paper rolls, spray<br />
paint, and resin. The intricacy of this piece<br />
inspires a sort of wonder: what else do we<br />
not always see? How else might science and<br />
its tools help us transcend the ordinary to<br />
reveal the extraordinary?<br />
We hope you keep this spirit of curiosity as<br />
you flip through these pages, going beyond<br />
ordinary definitions to create a deeper,<br />
more holistic understanding of human life<br />
and its accompanying challenges. We<br />
encourage you to employ the lens of<br />
scientific analysis, an artistic eye, and an<br />
empathetic heart to understand the stories<br />
we’ve chosen to share here.<br />
Finally, we would like to thank the entities<br />
who have supported us in creating this<br />
edition: the USC Levan Institute; USC’s<br />
Academic Culture Assembly; our advisor,<br />
Dr. Atia Sattar; editorial teams past and<br />
present; and, most importantly, the artists<br />
and writers who’ve shared their work with<br />
us. We hope as you read that you might<br />
find for yourself the meaning of art, science,<br />
and their relationship to one another.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Megha Gupta and Kelsi Yu
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Spinal Tap<br />
Cardium<br />
Premed Struggles<br />
The future of Medicine<br />
Defining the Modern Intellect<br />
Meditation and Prayer<br />
It’s kind of a Funny Story<br />
If Anyone Asks<br />
Ardent Son<br />
Mind Body Health<br />
Year of the Fish<br />
A Solitary light<br />
Monsoon<br />
Hope<br />
Secret of Healing<br />
Books we Recommend<br />
Cover Art: Yogurt and Granola<br />
Alana Barrett<br />
Desmond Chin<br />
Bonnie Park<br />
Rachel Polcyn<br />
Megha Gupta<br />
Austin Dalgleish<br />
Mahima Shah Verma<br />
Amy Hutto<br />
William Brochinsky<br />
Jean Wu<br />
Camilla Teng<br />
Amy Hutto<br />
Millie Barman<br />
Helen Jin<br />
Lisa Kam<br />
Alana Barrett
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mental growth through<br />
meditation and prayer<br />
-Austin Dalgleish
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Year of the Fish<br />
More often than not, zebrafish are regarded as aquarium pets with exotically-colored fins to decorate<br />
your home. But in the science community, zebrafish are considered a unique and highly regenerative<br />
animal model that can regenerate their own fins, skin, heart, bone, and even neurons. In Dr. Gage<br />
Crump’s lab, I study the zebrafish model to explore possible regenerative solutions to cranial synostosis<br />
and other birth defects. Part of our experimental procedures include fluorescent imaging, and here<br />
is an image of a zebrafish fluorescently tagged for a gene encoding bone formation. I formatted the<br />
fluorescent colors to USC colors to highlight all the amazing research our university is pioneering.<br />
- Camilla Teng
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By Lisa Kam
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2016-2017 Team<br />
Doshi<br />
Pratik<br />
Natarajan<br />
Natasha<br />
Malaska<br />
Colin<br />
Nathania<br />
Jessica<br />
Polcyn<br />
Rachel<br />
Zhang<br />
Mary<br />
Yu Kelsi<br />
Gupta<br />
Megha<br />
Co-Editors in Chief<br />
Layout<br />
Yasmin Davis<br />
Marketing<br />
Copy and<br />
Acquisitions<br />
Kate Franklin
Gupta<br />
Megha<br />
Yu Kelsi<br />
Hokan<br />
Albert<br />
Lee Rachel<br />
Jin Helen<br />
Sumrow<br />
Lily<br />
Lester<br />
Jacob<br />
Schlacter<br />
Jamie<br />
Wu Jean<br />
Davidson<br />
Nick<br />
2017-2018 Team<br />
Co-Editors in Chief<br />
Layout<br />
Kimia Zahedi<br />
Marketing<br />
Copy and<br />
Acquisitions
Produced with support from :<br />
USC Dornsife<br />
|USG<br />
Levan Institute for<br />
Humanities and Ethics<br />
www.uschealingprocess.com
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