Our focus for 2019 will be Global Outreach. Given our present moment, with crises of health brought about by climate change, political upheaval, social injustice, and the straining of public health systems, we must seek international and cross-cultural dialogue. Global problems need global communication and an understanding that those most likely to be affected by […]
Category: Journal Announcements
Humanitarian Evidence Week, Nov 23
We bring our supported blog posts for HEW to a close today. As a reminder if you are just tuning in, HEW2018 is an initiative led by Evidence Aid, in collaboration with the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford, to promote a more evidence-based approach to disaster relief. Evidence Aid seeks to: highlight which interventions […]
Humanitarian Aid Week, Nov 22
Here at MH blog, we plan to host some of the corresponding blog posts and activities occurring during HEW. The #medicalhumanities and #healthhumanities promote social justice issues, and so also global health and outreach. Humanitarian relief, in the form of medicine and basic needs, naturally aligns with our attempts to engage culturally and to reach […]
Humanitarian Aid Week, Nov 21
Today’s promoted HEW posts feature work on focusing relief efforts around need, and for assessment and research in the face of humanitarian crises. Learn more about Evidence Aid and Humanitarian Aid Week here. Webinar: Evidence reviews and field data collection to strengthen disaster preparedness and response at the Red Cross. This webinar will run from […]
Humanitarian Evidence Week, Nov 20
Today’s promoted HEW posts feature work on focusing relief efforts around need, and for assessment and research in the face of humanitarian crises. Learn more about Evidence Aid and Humanitarian Aid Week here. Blog: “Because rolling dice, asking for divine intervention and taking wild stabs at the problem don’t work”: The use of evidence in […]
Humanitarian Evidence Week, Nov 19
We continue our promotion of Humanitarian Evidence Week with a selection of blog texts, and a reminder about the webinar. Blog: Clinical evidence from humanitarian settings: The case report and its importance Written by Marta Balinska, MSF Switzerland, Joanna Ventikos, Oxford University Press and Iveta Simera, Global Health Network. Clinical case reports – or descriptions […]
Humanitarian Evidence Week! Nov 19-25
We at MEDICAL HUMANITIES welcome our readers to take part in Humanitarian Evidence Week 2018. What is Humanitarian Evidence Aid? Evidence Aid was established as a charity in 2015. When disaster strikes, from fire to epidemics to famine, the difficulty isn’t just providing aid, it’s knowing how to provide aid effectively. It does no good […]
Supple Bodies, Healthy Minds: Yoga, Psychedelics and American Mental Health
In “Supple Bodies, Healthy Minds: Yoga, Psychedelics and American Mental Health,” Lucas Richert and Matthew DeCloedt chart the entanglement of yoga and psychedelics in America during the first three quarters of the twentieth century, paying special attention to the countercultural 1960s, when the two became widely popular amongst a generation of primarily middle class, white […]
Paradigm Shift? Purity, Progress and the Origins of First-Episode Psychosis
In “Paradigm Shift? Purity, Progress and the Origins of First-Episode Psychosis,” Suze G. Berkhout examines images, concepts and metaphors in the medical literature on early intervention into first-episode psychosis (FEP) to understand how its embeds notions of purity and progress, and how the origins of the category is coeval with the development of new anti-psychotic […]
Evidence and Speculation: Reimagining Approaches to Architecture and Research within the Paediatric Hospital
Evidence-based design (EBD), a method of design that is derived from evidence-based medicine, might at first seem a far-cry from the concerns of speculative design, but in their article “Evidence and Speculation: Reimagining Approaches to Architecture and Research within the Paediatric Hospital,” Rebecca McLaughlan and Alan Pert show that speculative design functions in ways that […]