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WEBSep 13, 2024 · 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?
WEB1 day ago · 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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WEBJan 9, 2024 · 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) Anna Magdalena Elsner, Vanessa Rampton.
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WEBAuthors. Acceptance rate: 26%. Citescore: 2.6. Total content views: 204,412. Medical Humanities is a leading international journal that offers a platform not only for presenting, but also for shaping the conversation around medicine as practice and philosophy as it engages with humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical ...
Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19
WEBMedical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed above all is what the field of critical medical humanities has insisted on: the deep entanglement of social, cultural, historical life ...
On the need for an ecologically dimensioned medical humanities
WEBIncreasing calls from medical professionals and scholars suggest an urgent need for better and more widespread understandings of the ecological dimensions of health. Such calls have included: two recent Lancet special commissions on impacts of climate change on health; and recognition by senior figures from the WHO and United Nations of relationships between human impacts on the natural world ...
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WEBNov 23, 2022 · 24 August 2023. Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork. Muna Al-Jawad, Gaurish Chawla, Neil Singh. 22 February 2024. Hospital space interpreted according to Heidegger’s concepts of care and dwelling. Hye Youn Park. 22 February 2024.
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WEBMedical 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 of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability ...
Medical Humanities in Transition | Medical Humanities
WEBThe foundations for this special issue were laid during the early days of the pandemic, when the editors co-organised an online seminar series to address the theme of borders in the Medical Humanities.1 At the time of our virtual exchanges, national borders were closed, various travel requirements were introduced, and COVID-vaccination passports issued. The pandemic confronted us with many ...
Disease, illness, sickness, health, healing and wholeness: exploring ...
WEBConcepts 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 first-person judgments (including ...
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