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Medical Humanities is led by Dr Sabina Dosani, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability …
Woman in the brain, or the fraught relationship between feminism …
Dec 26, 2024 · This article explores the complicated relationship between feminism and women’s mental health. I discuss the differences and convergences between neurodiversity and mental …
Making my voice and owning its future | Medical Humanities
This article explores disabled experience and the future of technologies relating to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). This field includes people’s use of AAC devices, …
Jane Austen’s lifelong health problems and final illness: New …
Jane Austen is typically described as having excellent health until the age of 40 and the onset of a mysterious and fatal illness, initially identified by Sir Zachary Cope in 1964 as Addison’s …
The ‘Glasgow effect’: the controversial cultural life of a public ...
The question of why more people in Glasgow were dying, and younger, compared with English cities with almost identical levels of deprivation, was a hot topic in Scottish public health …
Disease, illness, sickness, health, healing and wholeness: exploring ...
Concepts such as disease and health can be difficult to define precisely. Part of the reason for this is that they embody value judgments and are rooted in metaphor. The precise meaning of …
Edges of perception: balancing sensory loss and potential in …
Tumbling down the rabbit hole. Losing the evident, one is forced out of everyday life’s comfort zone with the many sensory habits and reassurances (Duhigg 2014).Like Alice in Wonderland …
Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic ...
Oct 1, 2024 · This article conveys how taking patient knowledge seriously can improve patient experience and further medical science. In clinical contexts related to infection-associated …
Neurodiversity and disability: what is at stake? - Medical Humanities
Neurodiversity has come hugely to the fore in recent years in a variety of contexts, and is now subject to academic debate, activist discussion, and increasingly embedded in a range of …
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Medical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient …