Storytelling, Healing, and Community

“I didn’t know you were dying.” Families, Systems, & Health, 32(3), 353, (2014).

“Drops of Water.” Amerasia Journal, Spring, 2013

 “The Heart of Listening.” Academic Medicine. Volume 88, Issue 11, 1753, November, 2013 

The Experience of Vulnerability, 2012

Narrative Approach to cultural training for health care providers, 2012

Self help groups as a cultural healing resource, 2012

“Following You, Together in Cancer,” The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Fall, 2012.

Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2011). “Grandma, what do YOU want to do?” In Hough, L. (Ed.) The Challenges and Joys of Grandparenting. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books 

Understanding Self, Understanding Other. BMJ (British Medical Journal), 340: c2252. (2010).

Respect and Empathy in Teaching and Learning Cultural Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Special Issue on Health Disparities Education, Volume 25, Issue 2, 194-95. (2010). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847118/

The Impact of Film in Teaching Medicine. With M Grainger-Monsen. Family Medicine, Volume 42 , Number 3, 169-171 (2010).

Microaggressions by Supervisors of Color. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, Volume 4, Issue 1, 16-18 (2010).
Teaching Cross-cultural Competence Through Narrative. Family Medicine, October, Volume 41, Issue 9, 622-4 (2009). http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.601.7399&rep=rep1&type=pdf

We are Not Our Bodies. Academic Medicine. August, Volume 84, Issue 8, 981  (2009).

Blessed Messy Work. American Journal of Nursing. February, Volume 109, Issue 2, 88 (2009).

Grainger-Monsen, M. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2011). Worlds Apart in Explanatory Models of Illness and Health. In Colt, H. Friedman, L. & Quadrelli, S. (Eds.) The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies. New York: Oxford University Press