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网页2024年9月13日 — 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 ...
网页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 first-person judgments (including ...
Knock: a study in medical cynicism - Medical Humanities
网页Abstract. 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 …
Authors - Medical Humanities
网页Authors. 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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网页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 of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability ...
The relationship between the arts and medicine - Medical …
网页In 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 …
The practice of clinical medicine as an art and as a science
网页The practice of modern medicine is the application of science, the ideal of which has the objective of value-neutral truth. The reality is different: practice varies widely between and within national medical communities. Neither evidence from randomised controlled trials nor observational methods can dictate action in particular circumstances. Their conclusions are applied by value judgments ...
Jane Austen’s lifelong health problems and final illness: New …
网页2005年6月1日 — 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 ...
Table of contents - Medical Humanities
网页2023年12月19日 — Authority and medical expertise: Arthur Conan Doyle in The Idler. (4 May, 2023) Anne Chapman. Effect of a long-term art-based group therapy with eating disorders (17 April, 2023) Nurhan Eren, Pervin Tunc, Başak Yücel. Narrative-based learning for person-centred healthcare: the Caring Stories learning framework (19 May, 2023)
Reflections on embodiment and vulnerability - Medical Humanities
网页Bodies matter as our experience of them is the basis both for social life and also for much medical and social research. There has been a spectacular increase in academic research on the body in the last twenty years or so. This paper—although a review of three ethnographic studies on the seemingly disparate and narrow fields of the embodiment of working class experience, boxing, and ballet ...