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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.
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 ...
Jane Austen’s lifelong health problems and final illness: New …
WEBJun 1, 2005 · Jane Austen is typically described as having excellent health until the age of 40 and the onset of a mysterious and fatal illness, initially identified by Sir Zachary Cope in 1964 as Addison’s disease. Her biographers, deceived both by Cassandra Austen’s destruction of letters containing medical detail, and the cheerful high spirits of the existing letters, have seriously underestimated ...
Authors - Medical Humanities
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 ...
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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 ...
The relationship between the arts and medicine - Medical …
WEBIn this paper some of the intriguing links between the arts and medicine are explored. As a starting point I consider the notion of whole person understanding as articulated by Downie in an article entitled “Literature and medicine”, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics in 1991.[1][1] I suggest that the arts can contribute to whole person understanding in …
Looking for emerging themes in medical humanities—some …
WEBReaders are invited to write about what themes should shape the continuing development of medical humanities Where are the people? I am their leader—I ought to follow them.” So cried Alexandre Ledru-Rollin during the 1848 revolution in France.1 Now it is a hazardous business for editors to conjecture about the parallels between their steering of a topical academic journal and a radical ...
Knock: a study in medical cynicism - Medical Humanities
WEBAbstract. French literature has shown an enduring fascination with the social figure of the doctor. In Jules Romains' amusing play Knock (1922), and in its later film version (1951), the doctor as deceiver returns to centrestage with a flourish. Molière's seventeenth-century figures were mostly quacks and mountebanks; Knock is something new: he is …
Medicine: the science and the art - Medical Humanities
WEBMedicine has been said to be both a science and an art. Many practitioners regard this statement as containing an element of “either/or”. A brief look at what scientists and artists have written about their work and their world views, however, suggests that the two fields of endeavour form a complementary part of our attempts to understand ourselves and the world about us. Moreover, on ...
On Sonder - Medical Humanities
WEBBeyond the contents of this issue of the journal, sonder is a word that captures the essence of medical humanities work. It recognises, values and appreciates the unique subjective experience of individuals whilst acknowledging the relational context in which we all live, both in health and in illness. It is an area of inquiry that is concerned ...