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The importance of social connection for well-being: Insights from patients, the science of pain, and a “Remarkably Bright” octopus

Kao, Grace

"Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal" was founded in 2017 by Arden Hegele, a literary scholar, and Rishi Goyal, a physician. Its mission is to develop conversations among diverse people thinking about medical and humanistic ways of knowing ... as a “Department Without Walls” that connects scholars and thinkers from different spheres.

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Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Heyman Center for the Humanities
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Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal
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May 14, 2025

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