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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Women’s Global Health in Film
Announcement by Professor Hassan Shehata Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists Thursday 30th November 2023 10-18 Union Street, London, SE1 1SZ Led by the RCOG Senior and Global Health Vice President,Professor Hassan Shehata, in collaboration with MedFest, this unique event will showcase a series of critically acclaimed and thought-provoking short films that shed light on […]
Medical Humanities COVID 19 RESOURCES List
Like many of our readers, we at BMJ Medical Humanities have been diligently following responses to the present pandemic. Much of the blog content has shifted to look at the ways medical humanities and social justice address the crisis, and recent submissions to the journal also reflect the shifting issues around COVID 19 spread […]
December’s Special Issue on Hearing Impairment and the Medical Humanities
by Bonnie Millar People engage with sound in different ways and it can be fruitful to compare modern and historical ideas of the human experience of sound and hearing, fostering conversations between medicine, science, the arts and humanities. Medicine is more than just the analysis of bones, muscles, and samples, it also encompasses psychological and […]
Death and Dying, Italian Style
Valeria Golino, Italian actress and director, talks about assisted suicide and end of life decisions in her films ‘Honey’ and ‘Euphoria’. In this podcast Valeria Golino talks about end of life issues; assisted suicide, the common practice of some Italian people withholding the true diagnosis of terminal illness from their affected relatives, and doctor-patient relationships […]
June 2019 Special Issue: Psychosomatics
June Special Issue: Biopolitics, psychosomatics, participating bodies Brandy Schillace A New Outlook on Psychosomatics?: June’s Special Issue Brandy Schillace in conversation with Dr. Monica Greco Psychosomatic Subjects and the Agencies of Addiction by Darin Weinberg “Pulling the World In and Pushing it Away”: Participating Bodies and Survival Strategies by Robbie Duschinsky Agency, Embodiment and Enactment […]
March 2019 Standard Issue
Genetics Molar Pregnancies and Medieval Ideas of Monstrous Births The Lump of Flesh in The King of Tars by Dr. Natalie Goodison Sensing Space and Making Place: The Hospital and Therapeutic Landscapes in Two Cancer Narratives by Dr. Victoria Bates Feet and Fertility in the Healing Temples: A Symbolic Communication System Between Gods and Men? […]
June 2018 Special Issue: Pain and its Paradoxes
Before Narrative: Episodic Reading and Representations of Chronic Pain by Sara Wasson Shifting Understandings of Labour Pain in Canadian Medical History by Whitney Wood Adaptive Frameworks of Chronic Pain: Daily Remakings of Pain and Care at a Somali Refugee Women’s Health Centre by Kari Campeau Pain as Performance: Re-Virginisation in Turkey by Hande Güzel […]
Why Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy are Controversial in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Commentary by Michiel Tack Sharpe and Greco ask the interesting question of why cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) are controversial in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), this whe is not combine with a natural testosterone booster to improve the performance. One reason is that the type of CBT prescribed […]
Matthew Morgan’s Critical Finds Meaning in Intensive Care Medicine
Review by Amitha Kalaichandran, M.D. The intensive care unit (ICU) in any hospital is the most high-tech, and the least interactive, in terms of doctors and patients. I often think back to two patients in the pediatric ICU—one who had a recurrence of metastatic cancer resulting in multi-organ failure, and for which every last intervention […]