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WEBMedical Humanities is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Medical Humanities is led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad …

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Using graphic illustrations to uncover how a community of …

WEBAMS Phoenix: A Call to Caring. The AMS Phoenix Project: A Call to Caring was implemented with the goal to instil and sustain empathy, compassion and …

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Jane Austen’s lifelong health problems and final illness: New …

WEBJane 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 …

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About Medical Humanities

WEBMedical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical …

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Medicine: the science and the art Medical Humanities

WEBMedicine has been said to be both a science and an art. Many practitioners regard this statement as containing an element of “either/or”. A brief look at what …

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Philosophy for medical students—why, what, and how

WEBIn this paper the author’s biographical choices and experiences of both medicine and philosophy are first described. Then, the concept of philosophy is briefly examined with …

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Disease, illness, sickness, health, healing and wholeness: exploring

WEBConcepts 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 …

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Aesthetics for everyday quality: one way to enrich healthcare

WEBIn this paper we seek to illuminate the importance of aesthetics for healthcare quality and encourage more explicit discussion of aesthetics in healthcare improvement scholarship …

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Medical Humanities: a vision and some cautionary notes

WEBThis article aims to engender discussion about the nature and future of medical humanities. First, a normative personal vision of medical humanities as an inclusive movement is …

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Looking for emerging themes in medical humanities—some …

WEBReaders are invited to write about what themes should shape the continuing development of medical humanities Where are the people? I am their leader—I ought to follow them.” So …

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Lessons from the past: preventive medicine in early modern England

WEBThe history of English medicine used to consist of chronicles of medical progress and great ideas culminating in twentieth century biomedicine. Unlike earlier generations whose …

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Does medical humanities matter

WEBMedical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or …

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Disease, illness, sickness, health, healing and wholeness: …

WEBAbstract. Concepts such as disease and health can be diYcult to deﬁne precisely.Part of the reason for this is that they embody value judgments and are rooted in metaphor.The …

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Global health wars: a rhetorical review of global health critique

WEBThe critique of global health is a longstanding tradition in the global health humanities (GHH). Typically, this critique takes an expected tack: critics take a slice of global …

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Mary and Max Medical Humanities

WEBWritten and directed by Adam Elliot, 2009 Such is the unique and daring ambition of this multi-award winning clay animation that all of its characters, bar none, suffer a physical …

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Online First Medical Humanities

WEBOriginal research. Integrating humanities in healthcare: a mixed-methods study for development and testing of a humanities curriculum for front-line health workers in …

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Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change

WEBThis article responds to Coope’s call for the medical humanities to address the climate crisis as a health issue. Coope proposes three areas for progress towards …

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The illness-disease dichotomy and the biological-clinical splitting …

WEBRebalancing the egg and the chicken. Although Wilshire and Ward’s criticism of Sharpe and Greco glosses over several important distinctions, there is at least one sense in which …

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The ‘Glasgow effect’: the controversial cultural life of a public

WEBThe 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 …

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Medical humanities Medical Humanities

WEBIn Britain interest in “medical humanities” has emerged only recently, whereas in the United States it has been developing over the past thirty years. What then has generated this …

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An immigrant’s story Medical Humanities

WEBChen Weii will not leave the hospital. The doctors discharged him yesterday and again today and he still won’t leave. The reasons change but the answer is the same. …

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Original article Storytelling in the context of vaccine refusal: a

WEBStorytelling in the context of vaccine refusal: a strategy to improve communication and immunisation Philip B Cawkwell, David Oshinsky Division of Medical

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