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Medical Humanities is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Medical Humanities is led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability studies, gender and the body, communities in crisis, bioethics, and public health.
Neurodiversity and disability: what is at stake? - Medical Humanities
Neurodiversity has come hugely to the fore in recent years in a variety of contexts, and is now subject to academic debate, activist discussion, and increasingly embedded in a range of institutional and corporate settings in the Global North, from workplaces to early years education, from psychotherapy to mainstream political discourses. The term has gained traction in Medical Humanities, as ...
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2024年1月9日 · Current controversy. Examining legal and ethical challenges in HIV/AIDS disclosure obligations and medical practices: a case study from China (23 May, 2024) Ziyi Xie, Zhizhuang Duan. Between medicine, humanities and the law: compiling a living archive of assisted dying (27 June, 2024) openaccess icon. Anna Magdalena Elsner, Vanessa Rampton.
Of not passing: homelessness, addiction, mental health and care …
People experiencing homelessness in the UK were unconditionally offered housing (and support) from the beginning of the first lockdown in March 2020. For many, that meant ‘(re)entering’ the support system and having a chance to ‘move on’ to longer-term housing. This beneficial effect of some of the policy reactions to the pandemic on people …
How and why to use ‘vulnerability’: an interdisciplinary analysis of ...
In recent years, ‘vulnerability’ has been getting more traction in theoretical, professional and popular spaces as an alternative or complement to the concept of risk. As a group of science and technology studies scholars with different disciplinary orientations yet a shared concern with biomedicine, self and society, we investigate how vulnerability …
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Medical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient experience and the public at large. Led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history …
Disease, illness, sickness, health, healing and wholeness: exploring ...
Concepts such as disease and health can be difficult to define precisely. Part of the reason for this is that they embody value judgments and are rooted in metaphor. The precise meaning of terms like health, healing and wholeness is likely to remain elusive, because the disconcerting openness of the outlook gained from experience alone resists the reduction of …
Most Read Articles - Medical Humanities
Most Read Articles. Title Author Date. Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy. Christopher C H Cook, Adam Powell, Ben Alderson-Day, Angela Woods. 17 May 2023. Cicely Saunders, ‘Total Pain’ and emotional evidence at the end of life. Joe Wood. 23 November 2022. The ‘Glasgow effect’: the ...
From danger to destination: changes in the ... - Medical Humanities
At the beginning of 2022, the word ‘endemic’ became a buzzword, especially in the UK and the USA, and a kernel for the formation of novel social representations of the COVID-19 pandemic. The word normally refers to a disease which is continuously present, whose incidence is relatively stable and is maintained at a baseline level in any given …
The future of translational medical humanities: bridging the data ...
This essay argues that emerging forms of translational work in the field of medical humanities offer valuable methods for engaging with communities outside of academic settings. The first section of the essay provides a synthetic overview of definitions and critical engagements with the concept of ‘translation’ in the context of medical humanities, …