Biohacking Queer and Trans Fertility: Using Social Media to Form Communities of Knowledge
In this study, nine participants were recruited from three different Facebook groups specific to queer and trans fertility, family planning, pregnancy, and parenting. Each participant ’s posts and comments to their respective Facebook group(s) were analyzed, followed by interviews with participants. A total of 1,155 Facebook posts were collected. Biohacking activity—understood as a web of activity including gathering information, applying knowledge to personal circumstances, and sharing personal experiences and knowledge—was found in each of the three groups. Participants identified these online groups as safer space...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - January 26, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Expanding Narrative Medicine through the Collaborative Construction and Compelling Performance of Stories
AbstractThis 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, and 3) public performance of stories. In these phases, Off Script combines literary studies, creative writing, reflective practice, collegial feedback, and drama. With increased narrative competence, Off Script p...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - January 24, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film, by James Charney, MD. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - January 21, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados, by Nicole Charles. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - January 6, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Pharmaceuticals in the Water: The Need for Environmental Bioethics
AbstractPharmaceuticals 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 has not adequately engaged with this topic and, instead, has concerned itself with healthcare waste products more generally. The present essay calls for more ethical investigation on the topic. (Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 24, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
A Disembodied Dementia: Graphic Medicine and Illness Narratives
AbstractThe dominant discourse on dementia promotes a view that as individuals progress with the disease, they experience a neurological decline causing a loss of self. This notion, grounded in a Cartesian representation of selfhood, associates a loss of self as directly related to cognition. This paper presents an alternative anthropological framework, embodied selfhood, that challenges this representation. It then examines a potential tool, graphic medicine, to translate this theory into caregiving practice. Through analyzing three graphic novels —Wrinkles,Tangles, andAliceheimer ’s—this paper demonstrates how tens...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 21, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 12, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Farber ’s Reimagined Mad Pride: Strategies for Messianic Utopian Leadership
AbstractIn this article, I explore Seth Farber ’s critique inThe Spiritual Gift of Madness that the leaders of the Mad Pride movement are failing to realize his vision of the mad as spiritual vanguard of sociopolitical transformation. First, I show how, contra Farber ’s polemic, several postmodern theorists are well suited for this leadership (especially the Argentinian post-Marxist philosopher Ernesto Laclau). Second, I reinterpret the first book by the Icarus Project,Navigating the Space between Brilliance and Madness, by reimagining its central metaphor of Icarus in the context of late capitalism as a prison world. ...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
