Appearing in our September issue, Susan McPherson’s paper, A NICE game of Minecraft,” addressed the “philosophical flaws underpinning UK depression guideline nosology.” Dr McPherson is a researcher in the field of mental health and social care at the University of Essex in the UK, on Twitter variously as @SMhuirich @HHS_Research @ResearchEssex. SUMMARY This paper uses […]
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From September’s issue: Enhancing Care through Gratitude
From our September issue: Giskin Day’s open access “Enhancing relational care through expressions of gratitude: insights from a historical case study of almoner–patient correspondence” explores how gratitude was central to the remarkable success of Brompton Hospital almoners tasked with keeping in touch with patients who had received sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis. Hear more about the […]
From the September Issue: “You shall bury him”
In the just released September Issue, we are happy to present “You shall bury him: burial, suicide and the development of Catholic law and theology” by Ranana Leigh Dine (@MacLeanEthics). You can hear a short audio of Ranana describing her work here: SUMMARY People often assume that religious traditions simply offer a blanket condemnation of […]
December 2017 Special Issue: Shame, Stigma and Medicine
Why Shame, Stigma and Medicine? Luna Dolezal and Barry Lyons introduce their special journal issue on Shame, Stigma and Medicine Shame, stigma and medicine by Barry Lyons, Luna Dolezal Shame and the vulnerable self in medical contexts: the compassionate solution by Paul Gilbert A dirty little secret: stigma, shame and hepatitis C in the health […]
The Case of Dr Masajiro Miyazaki Japanese-Canadian Healthcare in World War II
Article Summary by Leticia B. Johnson This article uses the memoir of one Japanese-Canadian physician, Dr. Masajiro Miyazaki, in combination with government records and correspondence, to show the complexity of Japanese-Canadian provisions of health care amidst the ethnic community’s internment during the Second World War. Dr. Miyazaki’s memoir represents the disparity between Japanese-Canadian recollections of […]
‘[Her] Hostess … Is Anxious To Have Her Back When She Is Cured’: The Impact of the Evacuation of Children on Wartime Local Services, England, 1939-1945
Article Summary by Jonathan Taylor Jonathan Taylor’s article, which is based on the study of a rural part of North West England, explores the impact of the Second World War on children’s welfare services. The article begins by arguing that, contrary to existing histories of the conflict, many of the problems associated with evacuees were […]
June 2020 Special Issue: The Human Bodies of World War II: Beyond the Battlefield
World War II: bodies beyond the battlefield Listen to the podcast with the editors by Hannah Simpson, Megan Girdwood ‘Between-time stories’: waiting, war and the temporalities of care by Laura Salisbury ‘Never forget’: fictionalising the Holocaust survivor with dementia [read the article summary] by Sue Vice Special operations: a hidden chapter in the histories of […]
Corporate Medical Cultures: MD Anderson as a Case Study in American Corporate Medical Values
Article Summary by Dr. John Mulligan Using MD Anderson Cancer Center as a case study in nonprofit corporate medicine, this paper historicizes certain artificial constraints on debates over the role of healthcare corporations in American medicine, explores the consequences of these constraints, and suggests some ways of thinking about how we might begin to unwind […]
Beyond Messiaen’s Birds: The Post-Verbal World of Dementia
Article Summary by Dr. Stuart Wood Beyond Messiaen’s Birds was inspired by a realisation I had during an arts-based research workshop. The discussion was around how music therapists or other music practitioners make connections with people who are living with dementia. As I tried to put into words how we try to find music for […]
Estranged Relations: Coercion and Care in Narratives of Supported Decision-Making in Mental Healthcare
Article summary by Meredith Stone When you ask people about their experiences of coercion in 21st century mental healthcare do they speak of locked wards, seclusion, electroshock, and chemical restraint? Not always. In this article we report on a study in which we asked people who had experienced mental healthcare, either as a service user […]