March 2020 Standard Issue How sociophenomenology of the body problematises the ‘problem-oriented approach’ to growth hormone treatment by Maria Cristina Murano, Jenny Slatman, Kristin Zeiler Graphic illustration of impairment: science fiction, Transmetropolitan and the social model of disability by Richard Gibson Ethics in cross-cultural encounters: a medical concern? by Arild Kjell Aambø Health at the […]
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How Sociophenomenology of the Body Problematises the ‘Problem-Oriented Approach’ to Growth Hormone Treatment
Article Summary by Maria Cristina Murano Idiopathic short stature is a medical diagnosis given to children who have a statistically significant short stature for unknown medical reasons. Biomedical and bioethical debates are ongoing as to whether children with idiopathic short stature should be treated with growth hormone in order to increase their height. This article […]
The 3rd The Doctor as a Humanist International Symposium
Cfp by Gonzalo Galvez (Autonomous Madrid), Jonathan McFarland (Sechenov University, Russia) Do you consider that the humanities can transform medicine, healthcare and society in the 21st Century ? Then we definitely need you to become a part of the Doctor as a Humanist, which will be celebrating its 3rd Symposium. We are an association that […]
‘Addio Infanzia’, Farewell Childhood
‘Magari’ (If only) directed by Ginevra Elkann (Italy 2019) opening the Italian Film Festival in London, 4th– 9th March 2020, www.institutfrancais.org.uk/cinema-italy Film Review by Khalid Ali, Film and media correspondent, Medical Humanities A seminal survey from the Italian Society of Paediatrics exploring the life style of more than 11,000 adolescents showed that ‘one in five […]
Language as a Gate to Medical Services: Medical Interpreting in the NHS
Blog by Dr. Teodora Manea This year, our journal’s theme is access to healthcare. In that spirit, Dr. Manea reflects on the role of medical interpreters as vital players in the process of accessing medical care in the NHS —Cristina Hanganu-Bresch In the past few decades, the number of non-English speaking patients who access […]
The Essence of Medicine
Oli Otya? (“Hello?”): Life and Loss in Rural Uganda, directed by Lucy Bruell (USA, 2019) Review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York In the opening scenes of Oli Otya?, subtitles explain that a team of nurses from St. Francis Naggalama, a rural hospital in central Uganda, travels to outlying areas to treat […]
Talking Past Dementia: TimeSlips and the Creative Aging Revolution
Video and Blog by David Ney When I was ten years old, my mom and I went to see the doctor because my grandfather was sick. He had been there for me when I was sick as a kid, and I wanted to be there for him now. Pop sat on the exam table crinkling […]
Health, Humanity and Dr. Frankenstein
Podcast interview by Brandy Schillace Today, EIC Brandy Schillace interviews Audrey Shafer, MD (she/her), Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine/VAPAHCS, as well as Staff Anesthesiologist, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. Dr. Shafer is the Director for Medicine & the Muse, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. In today’s […]
Seeking Blog Content On This Year’s Theme: Access
Announcement by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch This year’s theme for Medical Humanities-BMJ is access to health care: how does accessibility as a facet of social justice impact how people manage and make sense of their health? Access to medical services can mean many things—from insurance coverage, to social services that make medical care possible, to outright discrimination for disadvantaged […]
A Legacy of Collateral Suffering
Review of Amá (USA, 2018), directed by Lorna Tucker, and produced by Bullfrog Films Written by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine Amá, a powerful and disturbing documentary, tells the hitherto little-known story of the systematic relocation and involuntary sterilization of Native American women in the United States between 1960 and 1980. In a moving […]