The Therapeutic Approach to Military Culture: A Music Therapist ’s Perspective
AbstractCulture can broadly be defined as “the values, norms, and assumptions that guide human action” (Wilson2008, 14). In contrast with the broader civilian society, the experiences and environments within the military community create a unique cultural subset. The United States armed forces are unified by their primary mission to provide external defense, security, and protection, and each branch (Army, Navy, Marine Corp, Air Force, Coast Guard and National Guard) shares a unique core set of values and norms. Because this culture is so complex and unique, it can sometimes be a challenge for many civilian professiona...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - March 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Pharmaceutical Advertising and the Subtle Subversion of Patient Autonomy
AbstractDirect-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCPA) is pervasive in the United States. Beyond its effect on consumer behavior, DTCPA changes the relationship between individuals and physicians. The author provides a brief history of pharmaceutical advertising in the United States. The author then analyzes the current commonly used marketing techniques of pharmaceutical companies and argues that pharmaceutical companies are “irrational authorities” in Erich Fromm’s sense of the term since they seek to exploit persons. Using concepts from various philosophers from the Continental tradition, with a particular ...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - March 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Pain Studies by Lisa Olstein, New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2021
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - March 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Narrative Humility and Parasite, directed by Bong Joon Ho, 2019
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - March 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
From the Editors
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - March 1, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Narrative Humility and Parasite, directed by Bong Joon Ho, 2019
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - March 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 - February 21, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
From the Editors
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - January 31, 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 - January 27, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
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 - January 23, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Disease Information Through Comics: A Graphic Option for Health Education
AbstractThis paper presents a critical interpretive synthesis of research on the efficacy of comics in educating consumers on communicable diseases. Using this review methodology, the authors drew from empirical as well as non-empirical literature to develop a theoretical framework exploring the implications of comics ’ combination of images and text to communicate this health promoting information. The authors examined selected works’ alignment with the four motivational components of Keller’s ARCS Model (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction) to evaluate research within the context of learner motivatio...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - January 17, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Phenomenologically-Informed Cancer Care: An Entryway into the Art of Medicine
AbstractThere has been increased interest in what the philosophical subdiscipline of phenomenology can contribute to medical humanities due to its dual emphases on practicality and its attempt to understand the experience of others, thus positioning it as a potentially helpful conceptual toolkit to guide clinical care. Using various figures from the phenomenological tradition, most prominently Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber, the authors illuminate relevant philosophical concepts, employ them in various examples, and provide three principles revolving around empathy, communication, and listening to patients ’ individua...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - January 11, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Phenomenologically-Informed Cancer Care: An Entryway into the Art of Medicine
AbstractThere has been increased interest in what the philosophical subdiscipline of phenomenology can contribute to medical humanities due to its dual emphases on practicality and its attempt to understand the experience of others, thus positioning it as a potentially helpful conceptual toolkit to guide clinical care. Using various figures from the phenomenological tradition, most prominently Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber, the authors illuminate relevant philosophical concepts, employ them in various examples, and provide three principles revolving around empathy, communication, and listening to patients individual ...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - January 11, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Picturing the Institution of Social Death: Visual Rhetorics of Postwar Asylum Expos Photography
AbstractThis paper examines how photography shaped the American public s perception of psychiatric hospitals during the immediate post-WWII period. I will analyze photographs that appeared in popular expos articles of that period and that used photography as a visual aid for disclosing the poor conditions of state hospitals, intending to promote reform efforts foc used on turning antiquated asylums into modern hospitals. Existing scholarship has mentioned how these photographs had a significant influence on shaping the publics view of asylum conditions. Through a close examination of these photographs, I will argue that...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 3, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Picturing the Institution of Social Death: Visual Rhetorics of Postwar Asylum Expos é Photography
AbstractThis paper examines how photography shaped the American public ’s perception of psychiatric hospitals during the immediate post-WWII period. I will analyze photographs that appeared in popular exposé articles of that period and that used photography as a visual aid for disclosing the poor conditions of state hospitals, intending to promote reform efforts foc used on turning antiquated asylums into modern hospitals. Existing scholarship has mentioned how these photographs had a significant influence on shaping the public’s view of asylum conditions. Through a close examination of these photographs, I will argue...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 3, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
