Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine, by Amanda Lock Swarr. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023
(Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - April 14, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Health Humanities: A Baseline Survey of Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in North America
AbstractThe authors conducted a baseline survey of baccalaureate and graduate degree health humanities programs in the United States and Canada. The object of the survey was to formally assess the current state of the field, to gauge what kind of resources individual programs are receiving, and to assess their self-identified needs to become or remain programmatically sustainable, including their views on the potential benefits of program accreditation. A 56-question baseline survey was sent to 111 institutions with baccalaureate programs and 20 institutions with graduate programs. Respondents were asked about three areas:...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - March 31, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The Brain Disorders Debate, Chekhov, and Mental Health Humanities
AbstractThe 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 needsboth the sciences and the arts and humanities. To help develop an approach mindful of both, we turn to physician-writer Anton Chekhov ’s story “A Nervous Breakdown.” We review the value of the arts and humanities as a coequal partner with natural sciences in the creation of a robust ment...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - March 24, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The Pest Hospital: Memory, Vaccines, and Serum Therapy in Kansas City
AbstractA 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 historical context, examining both the underlying history of medical practi ce and scientific understanding that is reflected in her experience and also the contexts of that history, including racial and religious att...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - February 24, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Correction to: Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter
(Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - February 24, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The Pest Hospital: Memory, Vaccines, and Serum Therapy in Kansas City
AbstractA 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 historical context, examining both the underlying history of medical practi ce and scientific understanding that is reflected in her experience and also the contexts of that history, including racial and religious att...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - February 24, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Correction to: Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter
(Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - February 24, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Correction to: On Photographing Artists ’ Books
(Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - February 23, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Accidental Kindness: A Doctor ’s Notes on Empathy, by Michael Stein. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022
(Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - February 21, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Vaccine Rhetorics, by Heidi Yoston Lawrence. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2020
(Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - February 21, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
