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letter from the editors
Where does medicine reside?
Perhaps it lives with science: glass flasks and microbial models, ascending
in size and scale to case studies and clinical trials, until statistically satisfactory
outcomes find their way into journals and textbooks — first medical,
then historical. Yet medicine is also a craft of sorts, and so it rents a room
with other professions that call what they do “practicing”: lawyers, architects,
musicians. From the recipient’s view, medicine lurks somewhere between
terror and comfort, fluctuates wildly, leaves things disheveled. For
the medical student, it is an evolving relationship. At times, our education
is empirically detached, cold enough to see your own breath; in others, it is
blisteringly intimate in ways we find ourselves unprepared for. We occupy
a Schrodingerian state of being both amateur and authority, consumer and
contributor, patients and (future) providers.
As a group of first-year medical and dental students, we chose to make
sense of this through our shared love of the humanities. We created this
publication, each page an apartment unit, for medicine to reside in. It lives
in paintings and photographs that capture the static exuberance of life. It
lives in poetry and prose that explore the personal and the broader societal
of what healthcare means, what being healthy means. It lives in sculptures
shaped by hands that pull sutures and films seen by eyes that will one day
read other films.
We chose the name In Vivo — within the living — because it is in each of
our living experiences that medicine resides and flourishes. We hope that,
as you view and read what our talented medical students and faculty have
produced, you find space to share and reflect on where medicine lives with
you.
Sincerely,
Yilong Peng and Emily Y. Yang
Editors-in-Chief
MASTHEAD
2021-2022
Editors-In-Chief
Yilong Peng
Emily Y. Yang
Managing Editors
Clara Baselga-Garriga
Aditya Jain
Editors
Minhal Ahmed, Maria
Asdourian, Rose Berman,
Jonah Blumentahl, Mariam
Dogar, Caterina Florissi,
Goutam Gadiraju, Malini
Gandhi, Ruby Guo, Cameron
Hayes, Lily Offit
Director of Design
Truelian Lee
Designers
Goutam Gadiraju, Kelly Li,
Sophie Yu, Lillian Zhu
Director of Marketing
Min Son
Marketing Associate
Sarah Lee
Advisors
Harvard Arts & Humanities
Initiative
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website: invivomagazine.org
instagram: @hms_in_vivo