Call for Art The project team is collecting creative works people created throughout COVID-19. We are looking for creative products that promote new conversations, activisms, and creative expressions around the social injustices revealed by the pandemic. Everyone who submits a creative piece and expresses interest to be included will: Have their creative products and connected […]
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Decolonising ‘Man’, Resituating Pandemic: An Intervention in the Pathogenesis of Colonial Capitalism
Article Summary by Rosemary J Jolly I use the Humanities to expose how we conceive of the human as a construction that can be changed. I counter Enlightenment Man, the basic ‘unit’ of Western medicine, with the African humanism of Es’kia Mphahlele. Mpahlele describes humans as needing to live with, rather than exploiting, non-human animals […]
WITHDRAWN: Living with COVID: What We Learned from Patients with Incurable Cancer During Challenging Times
This blog post has been withdrawn owing to significant inaccuracies that the journal believes undermine its reliability. The lead author Hilde Buiting submitted the following inaccurate information to the journal: (i) that Gabe Sonke was an author of the blog, when he was not; and (ii) that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek/Netherlands Cancer Institute was one […]
Podcasting Builds Disability Culture
With funding from the Disability Visibility Project, disabled podcasters Cheryl Green and Thomas Reid are creating a space for Deaf and disabled podcasters and content creators to find each other and find audiences. The project, currently called POD Access, will host a database of Deaf and disabled podcasters and podcasts relating to deafness or disability, […]
When Numbers Eclipse Narratives: A Cultural-Political Critique of the ‘Ethical’ Impacts of Short-Term Experiences in Global Health in Dominican Republic Bateyes
Article Summary by Brenda K. Wilson With short-term experiences in global health [STEGH] on the rise, it is increasingly important to better understand diverse effects on host populations. Much of the current literature on these issues uses the discipline of ethics to inform right/wrong ethical practice; moving beyond such normative benefit/harm reductionistic framings, this research […]
Global Health Humanities, a June Special Issue
Podcast: Brandy speaks to Narin Hassan and Jessica Howell about the June Special Issue: Global Health Humanities This timely special issue presents research in the emerging field of Global Health Humanities. Authors hail from different disciplinary backgrounds, including Medical Humanities, literary studies, film and visual media, the history of public health, rhetoric, women’s and gender […]
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
Book Review by Laura Grace Simpkins Maddie Mortimer. Picador. 2022. ISBN 9781529069365 Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is the debut novel from writer Maddie Mortimer. It follows the last few months of Lia’s life–an illustrator in her forties married to university professor, Harry, and mother to precocious tweenage daughter, Iris. Lia is dying of cancer. […]
Global Health Wars: A Rhetorical Review of Global Health Critique
Article Summary by Raquel Baldwinson In “Global Health Wars: A Rhetorical Review of Global Health Critique,” I examined the rhetoric of global health critique. I was specifically interested in global health critique as it is produced by humanities and social science-based scholars who are situated in the Global North, and who primarily cite other Global North scholars. […]
In Good Hands: The Phenomenological Significance of Human Touch for Nursing Practices
Article Summary by Gillian Lemermeyer The central notion of my research program is that the way we are with each other matters. This idea is grounded in an ethics of inclusion in a changing world and is situated in the close interface between nurses and other healthcare practitioners with the people in their care. I […]
The Invisible Kingdom: Beyond “Heartsink”
Book Review by Samuel Freeman In 1988 general practitioner T.C. O’Dowd published a study in the British Medical Journal, “Five years of heartsink patients in general practice.”[1] The study describes a group of patients who “exasperate, defeat, and overwhelm their doctors by their behaviour” and concludes that they are “a disparate group of individuals whose […]