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What is nature capable of

WEBExpanding on the recent call for a ‘critical medical humanities’ to intervene in questions of the ontology of health, this article develops a what we call a ‘speculative’ …

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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. …

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Fate and the clinic: a multidisciplinary consideration of fatalism in

WEBThe role of fatalism in health behaviour has stirred significant controversy in literature across several disciplines. Some researchers have demonstrated a negative …

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Does medical humanities matter

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 …

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Using graphic illustrations to uncover how a community of …

WEBOur modern-day frenetic healthcare culture has progressed to a state where healthcare professionals tend to detach themselves from the emotions of their patients/clients, …

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Homepage Medical Humanities

WEBMedical 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 …

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Pain and the human condition Medical Humanities

WEBPain is an essential pathway to redemption for many and for others it exists only as a devastating, hollowing experience that defies meaning. In short, the paradoxes of pain …

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About Medical Humanities

WEBMedical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical …

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Women’s voices, emotion and empathy: engaging different …

WEBThis article explores our experiences on a Wellcome Trust-funded project on women’s experiences of ‘everyday health’ in Britain between the 1960s and the 1990s. We …

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The Participatory Zeitgeist: an explanatory

WEBThe new Zeitgeist: participation. The current preoccupation with methods for citizen engagement, public participation and involvement of people with lived experience in …

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The ‘Glasgow effect’: the controversial cultural life of a public

WEBThe question of why more people in Glasgow were dying, and younger, compared with English cities with almost identical levels of deprivation, was a hot topic in Scottish public …

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Mary and Max Medical Humanities

WEBWritten and directed by Adam Elliot, 2009 Such is the unique and daring ambition of this multi-award winning clay animation that all of its characters, bar none, suffer a physical …

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Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change

WEBThis article responds to Coope’s call for the medical humanities to address the climate crisis as a health issue. Coope proposes three areas for progress towards …

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The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19

WEBUnderstanding what makes communication effective when designing public health messages is of key importance. This applies in particular to vaccination campaigns, …

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Online First Medical Humanities

WEBOriginal research. Integrating humanities in healthcare: a mixed-methods study for development and testing of a humanities curriculum for front-line health …

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The illness-disease dichotomy and the biological-clinical splitting …

WEBRebalancing the egg and the chicken. Although Wilshire and Ward’s criticism of Sharpe and Greco glosses over several important distinctions, there is at least one sense in which …

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Global health wars: a rhetorical review of global health critique

WEBThe critique of global health is a longstanding tradition in the global health humanities (GHH). Typically, this critique takes an expected tack: critics take a slice of global …

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Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for

WEBPerson-centred care (PCC) has been touted as a promising paradigm for improving patients’ experiences and outcomes, and the overall therapeutic environment for a range …

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Original article Storytelling in the context of vaccine refusal: a

WEBStorytelling in the context of vaccine refusal: a strategy to improve communication and immunisation Philip B Cawkwell, David Oshinsky Division of Medical

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Does chaos theory have major implications for philosophy of …

WEBCHAOS THEORY AND THE DISEASE CONCEPT. These discoveries show that for certain systems the “healthy” or “normal” state is not characterised by regularity, stability or …

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An immigrant’s story Medical Humanities

WEBChen Weii will not leave the hospital. The doctors discharged him yesterday and again today and he still won’t leave. The reasons change but the answer is the same. …

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