Interview by Pragya Dev and Binod Mishra The field of medical humanities has gained more attention in recent decades, particularly within medical institutions, where it was introduced to bring a more humanistic approach to medical practices. This interview with Professor Alan Bleakley expands on the relevance of medical humanities and addresses the challenges facing this […]
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United in Grief
Review by Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent When the Light Breaks (Ljósbrot) (Rúnar Rúnarsson, Iceland, 2024) Showing at the LFF 16th and 17th October 2024 Research that explores the impact on adolescents of the sudden death of their peers is scarce.1 Rúnar Rúnarsson masterfully addresses this gap in ‘When the light breaks,’ […]
Conversations in Chaos
Blog by Kim Kain In Hindu tradition, the deity Vishnu periodically descends from the heavens to restore cosmic balance in times of chaos. On a morning in February 2023, in the midst of campus protests across the US centering on the Israel-Palestine crisis, a group of twenty medical school faculty members contemplated a sandstone sculpture […]
June 2024 Special Issue: Making Modern Maternity
Making Modern Maternity [Podcast] Whitney Wood, Heather A Love, Jerika Sanderson, Karen Weingarten The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives [read the article summary] Tiago Fernandes Maranhão “The highest in each class was a […]
Who is Speaking for Bruce Willis? When Third Party Narratives Encroach on Patient Rights
Blog by Arlene Jackson The family of actor Bruce Willis first shared his diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) via social media in 2022, stating: “Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities. As a result of this and with much […]
Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief Vacancy
BMJ is looking for an ambitious and dynamic Editor-in-Chief to lead Medical Humanities, the leading international journal in its field, co-owned by the Institute of Medical Ethics and BMJ Group. The candidate should be an active researcher in a relevant field. Specialists in any field of medical humanities are welcome to apply. The Editor-in-Chief will […]
RESCINDED CFP for Special 25-year Anniversay Issue of Medical Humanities-BMJ
About a month ago, we put out a call for a 25-year anniversary issue of Medical Humanities-BMJ: Equity, Justice, and the Future(s) of Medical Humanities. We unfortunately have to rescind this call for the time being. A new CPF will be issued in due time. We apologize for any inconvenience. […]
Global Health: From Whose Bench to Whose Bedside?
Matthew Harris, Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation: Low-Cost Solutions from Low-Income Countries (Routledge, 2023, 272 pp., ISBN 9781032284958). Book Review by Dr. Tom Bashford and Dr. Brandon Smith Global health is a burgeoning field, the subject of an increasing number of research articles, academic programmes, and discussion.1 Over the past twenty years, it has rapidly evolved from […]
Documentary film: Imagining Technology for Disability Futures
By Brandy Schillace As Editor in Chief, I’m excited to bring you this amazing documentary film. We recently started a program called Path to Publication, a means of offering editorial support to help topics collections come together for those who lack institutional or other kinds of support. Our first issue will come out in December […]
Deconstructing Empathy in Saudi Film ‘The Night Courier’ (Mandoob)
‘Mandoob’ (The Night Courier), Ali Kalthami, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2023 In UK cinemas from Friday 30th August 2024 Review by Khalid Ali, Film and Media Correspondent Empathy is a desirable quality in all healthcare professionals. In a seminal article Decety argues that educationalists and learners should start by approaching the sometimes-amorphous concept of ‘empathy’ […]