Evil animes and Honorable Ruptures: Reading Gabriel Garc ía Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera through a Public Health Humanities Lens
AbstractExtent health humanities readings of Gabriel Garc ía Márquez’sLove in the Time of Cholera have focused on the doctor-patient relationship, the physician-scientist as a model for aspiring practitioners, and how individuals relate to the novel ’s health themes of death, disease, and disability. However, such medicine-focused readings neglect the population-level public health concerns of the novel as they relate to contagion, community, and quarantine. This paper contributes to the growing field of public health humanities by using a cl ose reading method to explore how the competing endemic and epidemic public...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
What Matters Most? The Power of Kafka ’s Metamorphosis to Advance Understandings of HIV Stigma and Inform Empathy in Medical Health Education
AbstractHIV stigma, a social-medical problem, continues to confound researchers and health professionals, while undermining outcomes. Empathy may reduce stigma; its absence may predict stigma. This research investigates: How does Kafka ’sMetamorphosis advance understandings of HIV stigma in medical health education?Metamorphosis amplifies the sociological-relational mechanisms fostering HIV stigma. It offers a multi-disciplinary, responsive space for ethical, humanistic and clinical inquiry to meet: enabling students to consider how social structures shape health inequities, moral, social experience, and their profession...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Elena Fratto, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Medical Assistance in Dying: A Review of Related Canadian News Media Texts
AbstractMedical 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 stakeh olders and function pedagogically, shaping public opinion about MAiD. We discuss this review of Canadian news media on MAiD, provide examples of four key themes we identified (vulnerability, autonomy, dignity, and human rights), and discuss th...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry ’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, by Andrew Scull. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age, by Matthew Cobb. New York: Basic Books, 2022
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Medical Assistance in Dying: A Review of Related Canadian News Media Texts
AbstractMedical 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 stakeh olders and function pedagogically, shaping public opinion about MAiD. We discuss this review of Canadian news media on MAiD, provide examples of four key themes we identified (vulnerability, autonomy, dignity, and human rights), and discuss th...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry ’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, by Andrew Scull. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age, by Matthew Cobb. New York: Basic Books, 2022
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
How to Be Irish in an Epidemic: A Dossier Article on HIV and AIDS in Ireland, Then and Now
AbstractThis 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 Action (GHA) (2) a speech delivered by Dr. Erin Nugent to government officials on the re-branding of HIV Ireland in 2015; (3) a brief history, recounted by Noel Donnellan, of ACT UP Dublin since it was revitalized i...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 23, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Dracula as Cholera: The Influences of Sligo ’s Cholera Epidemic of 1832 on Bram Stoker’s Novel Dracula (1897)
AbstractThe paper argues that historic events in the western Irish town of Sligo were more substantial in shaping Bram Stoker ’s novelDracula (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 written account of Sligo’s epidemicExperiences of the Cholera in Ireland (1873) influenced Bram Stoker, it is argued that as a voracious library researcher he is likely to have cross-referenced it with ot...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 17, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
