Beyond Empathy to System Change: Four Poems on Health by Bertolt Brecht
AbstractBertolt Brecht ’s poem “A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor” is frequently cited as a means to raise awareness among health workers of the health effects of living and working conditions. Less cited is his Call to Arms trilogy of poems, which calls for class-based action to transform the capitalist economic syst em that sickens and kills so many. In this article, we show how “A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor,” with its plea for empathy for the ill, contrasts with the more activist and often militant tone of the Call to Arms trilogy: “Call to a Sick Communist,” “The Sick Communist’s Answer to the Comrad...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 21, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
“It’ll never end, I’ll never go”: Representation of Caregiving in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Footfalls
AbstractResearch 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 ofcare and Albert Camus ’s idea of theabsurd, this article analyzesEndgame (1957) andFootfalls (1976) by attending to Beckett ’s dramatic representation of caregiving as undergirded by a sense of its absurdity. The almost 20-year gap between the writing of both plays highlights the development of an understanding that this sense of absurdity is never abo...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 21, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Beyond Empathy to System Change: Four Poems on Health by Bertolt Brecht
AbstractBertolt Brecht ’s poem “A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor” is frequently cited as a means to raise awareness among health workers of the health effects of living and working conditions. Less cited is his Call to Arms trilogy of poems, which calls for class-based action to transform the capitalist economic syst em that sickens and kills so many. In this article, we show how “A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor,” with its plea for empathy for the ill, contrasts with the more activist and often militant tone of the Call to Arms trilogy: “Call to a Sick Communist,” “The Sick Communist’s Answer to the Comrad...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 21, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
“It’ll never end, I’ll never go”: Representation of Caregiving in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Footfalls
AbstractResearch 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 ofcare and Albert Camus ’s idea of theabsurd, this article analyzesEndgame (1957) andFootfalls (1976) by attending to Beckett ’s dramatic representation of caregiving as undergirded by a sense of its absurdity. The almost 20-year gap between the writing of both plays highlights the development of an understanding that this sense of absurdity is never abo...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 21, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
After The Surgery
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 16, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Resection
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 16, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
After The Surgery
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 16, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Resection
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 16, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Harnessing the Humanities to Foster Staff Resilience: An Annual Arts and Humanities Rounds at a Children ’s Hospital
AbstractWorking 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 an impact on their clinical careers. The multidisciplinary forum also allows staff to connect and learn about each other. We discuss the development of the program, its format and logisti cs, and lessons learned ove...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 9, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
If They Summon You
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - May 17, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
“I AM NOT A VIRUS”: COVID-19, Anti-Asian Hate, and Comics as Counternarratives
AbstractEver since the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, East Asians across the globe have been ostracized, othered, pathologized, and subjected to numerous anti-Asian hate crimes. Despite contemporary China ’s rapid modernization, the country is still perceived as an Oriental and primitive site. Taking these cues, the current article aims to investigate the Sinophobic attitudes in the wake of COVID-19 through a detailed analysis of sequential comics and cartoons by artists of East Asian descent, such as Laura Gao and Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom. Drawing theoretical insights from Alexandre White’s “epidemic ...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - May 10, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Symptoms of the Self: Tuberculosis and the Making of the Modern Stage, by Roberta Barker. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2022.
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - May 9, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
