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“Inside Out of Mind”: Alternative Realities, Dementia and Graphic Medicine Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Laboni Das, Sathyaraj Venkatesan
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On the Lookout for a Crack: Disruptive Becomings in Karoline Georges’s Novel Under the Stone Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Dominique Hétu
Informed by medical science and biotechnology, Karoline Georges’s novel Under the Stone offers a reflection on suffering bodies and imagines responses to an overwhelming sense of fear and passivity that embodied trauma and the world’s many crises can create. In line with the editors’ reclaiming of the milieu for the medical humanities, I draw on Deleuze and Guattari’s geophilosophy and Sara Ahmed’s
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“Bound Tightly in the Pack”: Cloth and Care in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Christopher M. Rudeen
Talk therapy is, by definition, difficult, if not impossible, to represent materially. Whereas other scholars have sought to do so by referencing Sigmund Freud’s drawings or the setting of his consulting room, this article looks instead to the use of cloth in Joanne Greenberg’s 1964 semiautobiographical novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. The two main treatments given to protagonist Deborah Blau
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Our Newspaper as Care: Narrative Approaches in Fanon’s Psychiatry Clinic Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Nathalie Egalité
This paper argues that the newspaper Notre Journal enshrined the importance of narrative in the revolutionary psychiatry of its founder and editor, Frantz Fanon. Anchoring my analysis in the interdisciplinarity of the medical humanities, I demonstrate how care at Hôpital Blida-Joinville in colonial Algeria was mediated by the written word. I examine Fanon’s physician writing and editorial texts detailing
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“Illness Calls for Stories”: Care, Communication, and Community in the COVID-19 Patient Narrative Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Rosalind Crocker
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Wait for Me: Chronic Mental Illness and Experiences of Time During the Pandemic Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Lindsey Beth Zelvin
As someone diagnosed with severe chronic mental illness early in my adolescence, I have spent over half of my life feeling out of step with the rest of the world due to hospitalizations, treatment programs, and the disruptions caused by anxiety, anorexia, depression, and obsessive–compulsive disorder. The effect of my mental health conditions compounded by these treatment environments means I often
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Advancing Global Health Equity: The Role of the Liberal Arts in Health Professional Education Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Abebe Bekele, Denis Regnier, Tomlin Paul, Tsion Yohannes Waka, Elizabeth H. Bradley
Much innovation has taken place in the development of medical schools and licensure exam processes across the African continent. Still, little attention has been paid to education that enables the multidisciplinary, critical thinking needed to understand and help shape the larger social systems in which health care is delivered. Although more than half of medical schools in Canada, the United Kingdom
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Developing Disability-Focused Pre-Health and Health Professions Curricula Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Rachel Conrad Bracken, Kenneth A. Richman, Rebecca Garden, Rebecca Fischbein, Raman Bhambra, Neli Ragina, Shay Dawson, Ariel Cascio
People with disabilities (PWD) comprise a significant part of the population yet experience some of the most profound health disparities. Among the greatest barriers to quality care are inadequate health professions education related to caring for PWD. Drawing upon the expertise of health professions educators in medicine, public health, nursing, social work, and physician assistant programs, this
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Pediatric Resident Perceptions of a Narrative Medicine Curriculum Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Raymond A. Cattaneo, Natalie González, Abby Leafe, Rachel Fleishman
Training residents to become humanistic physicians capable of empathy, compassionate communication, and holistic patient care is among our most important tasks as physician educators. Narrative medicine aims to foster those highly desirable characteristics, and previous studies have shown it to be successful in fostering self-reflection, emotional processing, and preventing burnout. We aimed to evaluate
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The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19 Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Katharine Cheston, Marta-Laura Cenedese, Angela Woods
Long COVID affects millions of individuals worldwide but remains poorly understood and contested. This article turns to accounts of patients’ experiences to ask: What might narrative be doing both to long COVID and for those who live with the condition? What particular narrative strategies were present in 2020, as millions of people became ill, en masse, with a novel virus, which have prevailed three
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Theatre & Medicine, by Stanton B. Garner, Jr. London: Methuen Drama, 2023. Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Meredith Conti
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Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity, by Helen Rhee. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2022. Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Molly Ayn Jones-Lewis
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Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, by Lester D. Friedman and Therese Jones. New York: Routledge, 2022. Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Kimberly R Myers
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Illness Narratives in Popular Music: An Untapped Resource for Medical Education Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Andrew Childress, Monica Lou
Illness narratives convey a person’s feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and descriptions of suffering and healing as a result of physical or mental breakdown. Recognized genres include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, and films. Like poets and playwrights, musicians also use their life experiences as fodder for their art. However, illness narratives as expressed through popular music are an understudied
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Forming Physicians: Evaluating the Opportunities and Benefits of Structured Integration of Humanities and Ethics into Medical Education Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Cassie Eno, Nicole Piemonte, Barret Michalec, Charise Alexander Adams, Thomas Budesheim, Kaitlyn Felix, Jess Hack, Gail Jensen, Tracy Leavelle, James Smith
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Art is Patient: A Museum-Based Experience to Teach Trauma-Sensitive Engagement in Health Care Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Eva-Marie Stern
Psychological trauma is ubiquitous, an often hidden yet influential factor in care across clinical specialties. Interdisciplinary health professions education is mobilizing to address the importance of trauma-sensitive care. Given their attention to complex human realities, the health humanities are well-poised to shape healthcare learners’ responses to trauma. Indeed, many such arts and humanities
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Medical Pluralism as a Matter of Justice Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Kathryn Lynn Muyskens
Culture, health, and medicine intersect in various ways—and not always without friction. This paper examines how liberal multicultural states ought to interact with diverse communities which hold different health-related or medical beliefs and practices. The debate is fierce within the fields of medicine and bioethics as to how traditional medicines ought to be regarded. What this debate often misses
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“It’ll never end, I’ll never go”: Representation of Caregiving in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Footfalls Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Hui Ling Michelle Chiang
Research on the unrepresentability of death in Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre abound in Beckett scholarship, but little attention has been given to the artist’s representation of caregiving to the dying in his plays. With reference to Martin Heidegger’s concept of care and Albert Camus’s idea of the absurd, this article analyzes Endgame (1957) and Footfalls (1976) by attending to Beckett’s dramatic representation
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Harnessing the Humanities to Foster Staff Resilience: An Annual Arts and Humanities Rounds at a Children’s Hospital Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Wynne Morrison, Elizabeth Steinmiller, Sofia Lizza, Todd Dillard, Patrick Lipawen, Stephen Ludwig
Working in healthcare can be fulfilling, meaningful, and sometimes exhausting. Creative endeavors may be one way to foster personal resilience in healthcare providers. In this article, we describe an annual arts and humanities program, the Ludwig Rounds, developed at a large academic children’s hospital. The event encourages staff to reflect on resilience by sharing their creative work and how it had
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Public Health, Visual Rhetoric, and Latin America: Steinbeck’s The Forgotten Village Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Sebastian Williams
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Moving Through a Textual Space Autistically Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Anna Nygren, Sarinah O’Donoghue
This article is an investigation of neurodivergent reading practices. It is a collectively written paper where the focus is as much on an autoethnographic exploration of our autistic readings of autism/autistic fiction as it is on the read texts themselves. The reading experiences described come primarily from Yoon Ha Lee’s Dragon Pearl (2019) and Dahlia Donovan’s The Grasmere Cottage Mystery (2018)
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Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start-and Why They Don't Go Away, by Heidi J. Larson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Maya J Goldenberg
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Theater as a Site of Resistance in Haresh Sharma’s Good People: Questioning Authorities and Contesting Truths in the Clinic Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-04-22 April Thant Aung
Good People, by Singaporean playwright Haresh Sharma, unmasks racial and religious tensions between Singapore’s increasingly diverse racial groups and the attendant ramifications on the healthcare ecosystem and the doctor-patient relationship. Drawing upon Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, this paper argues that, in Good People, Sharma employs theater as a site of resistance by calling into
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Normality and Disability in H. G. Wells’s “The Country of the Blind” Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Richard B. Gibson
Describing someone as disabled means evaluating their relationship with their environment, body, and self. Such descriptions pivot on the person’s perceived limitations due to their atypical embodiment. However, impairments are not inherently pathological, nor are disabilities necessarily deviations from biological normality, a discrepancy often articulated in science fiction via the presentation of
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What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis? Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Daniel R. George, Benjamin Studebaker, Peter Sterling, Megan S. Wright, Cindy L. Cain
Deaths of Despair (DoD), or mortality resulting from suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease, have been rising steadily in the United States over the last several decades. In 2020, a record 186,763 annual despair-related deaths were documented, contributing to the longest sustained decline in US life expectancy since 1915–1918. This forum feature considers how health humanities disciplines
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Health Humanities: A Baseline Survey of Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in North America Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Sarah L. Berry, Craig M. Klugman, Charise Alexander Adams, Anna-leila Williams, Gina M. Camodeca, Tracy N. Leavelle, Erin G. Lamb
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The Brain Disorders Debate, Chekhov, and Mental Health Humanities Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Jussi Valtonen, Bradley Lewis
The contemporary brain disorders debate echoes a century-long conflict between two different approaches to mental suffering: one that relies on natural sciences and another drawing from the arts and humanities. We review contemporary neuroimaging studies and find that neither side has won. The study of mental differences needs both the sciences and the arts and humanities. To help develop an approach
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The Pest Hospital: Memory, Vaccines, and Serum Therapy in Kansas City Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Perri Klass, Martha Gershun
A medical narrative from a woman in her 90s describes her childhood bout with diphtheria in Kansas City, Missouri, apparently immediately after vaccination, her confinement in the “pest hospital,” and her treatment with what she understood as a blood transfusion from a donor who was found through a radio appeal. In this essay, we trace the narrative back to the institutions, medical practices, and
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Correction to: Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter. Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Keisha Ray,Faith E Fletcher,Daphne O Martschenko,Jennifer E James
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Vaccine Rhetorics, by Heidi Yoston Lawrence. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2020. Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Mark C Navin
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Corresponding about Death: Analyzing Letters Exchanged between Patients with Cancer and Medical Students Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Mekaleya Tilahun, Tianyi Zhang, Cynthia Perlis, Sam Brondfield
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“A Widely Applicable Model”: Teaching Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay Across Institutions Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Sarah Boykin Hardy, Elizabeth Starr, Cindie Aaen Maagaard, Shena McAuliffe, Erin McConnell, Krista Quesenberry
Many of those teaching at the intersection of medicine and the humanities are siloed within institutional spaces. This essay recounts the teaching of Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay to students across different academic contexts and considers what we can learn when we put classrooms in conversation with each other. This essay argues for the value of texts like Manguso’s, which explicitly hold
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Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter. Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Keisha Ray,Faith E Fletcher,Daphne O Martschenko,Jennifer E James
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Vaccine Inequities and the Legacies of Colonialism: Speculative Fiction’s Challenge to Medicine Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Louise Penner, Courtenay Sprague
New vaccines to prevent COVID-19 and malaria underscore the importance of scientific advances to promote public health globally. How is credit for such scientific discoveries attributed, and who benefits? The complex narrative of Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome, both historical and speculative, demonstrates how medicine has come to value particular kinds of advances over others, prompting readers
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Creating Health Humanities Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges: Three Models. Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Bernice L Hausman,Peter Jaros,Jon Stone,Kevin Shorner-Johnson,John Hinshaw
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Biohacking Queer and Trans Fertility: Using Social Media to Form Communities of Knowledge Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Shain Wright
Biohacking involves individuals determining, developing, and directing relevant activities to meet their personal biological goals. Biohacking fertility is a resilient method that trans and genderqueer people use to meet their reproductive and family-planning needs in the face of historic medical marginalization and oppression. In this study, nine participants were recruited from three different Facebook
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Expanding Narrative Medicine through the Collaborative Construction and Compelling Performance of Stories Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Woods Nash, Mgbechi Erondu, Andrew Childress
This essay proposes an expansion of the concept of narrative competence, beyond close reading, to include two more skills: the collaborative construction and compelling performance of stories. To show how this enhanced form of narrative competence can be attained, the essay describes Off Script, a cocurricular medical storytelling program with three phases: 1) creative writing workshop, 2) dress rehearsal
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Pharmaceuticals in the Water: The Need for Environmental Bioethics Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Thomas Milovac
Pharmaceuticals are present in various water sources used by wildlife and as drinking water for humans. Research shows that certain pharmaceuticals, sold over the counter and by prescription only, can harm wildlife. Moreover, the human ingestion of water contaminated by polypharmacy presents a potential cause for concern for human health. Despite the wide scope of this problem, environmental bioethics
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A Disembodied Dementia: Graphic Medicine and Illness Narratives Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Sarah B. Kovan, Derek R. Soled
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Medical Assistance in Dying: A Review of Related Canadian News Media Texts Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Julia Brassolotto, Alessandro Manduca-Barone, Paige Zurbrigg
Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized in Canada in 2016. Canadians’ opinions on the service are nuanced, particularly as the legislation changes over time. In this paper, we outline findings from our review of representations of MAiD in Canadian news media texts since its legalization. These stories reflect the concerns, priorities, and experiences of key stakeholders and function pedagogically
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As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age, by Matthew Cobb. New York: Basic Books, 2022. Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Carolyn Riley Chapman
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How to Be Irish in an Epidemic: A Dossier Article on HIV and AIDS in Ireland, Then and Now Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Bill Foley, Erin Nugent, Noel Donnellan, Thomas Strong, Cormac O’Brien, Graham Price
This dossier article contains four short and varied contributions from activists and other service and healthcare providers who have been agitating and working on the frontlines of HIV/AIDS in Ireland since the early 1980s. The dossier contains: (1) a history, by Bill Foley, of the early collective efforts of a group of gay men to provoke government action and healthcare under the umbrella of Gay Health
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Dracula as Cholera: The Influences of Sligo’s Cholera Epidemic of 1832 on Bram Stoker’s Novel Dracula (1897) Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Marion McGarry
The paper argues that historic events in the western Irish town of Sligo were more substantial in shaping Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897) than previously thought. Biographers of Stoker have credited his mother, Charlotte Thornley Stoker, for influencing her son’s gothic imagination during his childhood by sharing tales of the Sligo cholera epidemic she had witnessed in 1832. While Charlotte Stoker’s
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Introduction-Epidemics and Disease in Ireland: Literature, Culture, Histories. Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Cormac O'Brien,Jennifer A Slivka
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