Article Summary by Tracy Moniz Article by Tracy Moniz, John Costella, Maryam Golafshani, Chris Watling and Lorelei Lingard What can we learn from research that compares the stories that physicians, patients, and family caregivers write about their illness and care experiences? Our literature review sought to answer this question in hopes that a better understanding […]
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Healthcare Providers’ Engagement with Eating Disorder Recovery Narratives: Opening to Complexity and Diversity
Article Summary by Andrea LaMarre and Carla Rice There is very little training around eating disorders across different areas and levels of healthcare. It is even less common to see training that shares the perspectives of people with lived experiences and their supporters with healthcare providers and healthcare provider trainees (HCPs). In this study, we […]
Recognition, Collaboration and Community: Science Fiction Representations of Robot Carers in Robot & Frank, Big Hero 6 and Humans
Article Summary by Yugin Teo This paper is interested in how three science fiction texts that came out in the 2010s explored in distinct ways the relationship between robot carers and their human users: the films Robot & Frank (2012) and Big Hero 6 (2014), and the television series Humans (2015–2019). The paper examines ethical […]
From the December Issue: Pyschosocial Curating
Today we are pleased to preview an article from the December double issue, Vanessa Bartlett’s Psychosocial curating: a theory and practice of exhibition-making at the intersection between health and aesthetics. Read the full article on the Medical Humanities journal website. Dr. Vanessa Bartlett is a curator and McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of […]
From December’s Issue: Film, Depression, and Anxiety
In today’s post, we are pleased to preview the work of James Carney: Culture and mood disorders: the effect of abstraction in image, narrative and film on depression and anxiety. In this open access article, Dr. Carney talks about our engagement with cultural representation. To hear more, listen to his audio clip, and read a […]
December special Issue: Haunted Hearts
Today we are pleased to present another from the December Special Issue Section: The haunted heart and the Holy Ghost: on retrieval, donation and death, by Joshua Hordern. In his summary of the work, Joshua writes: What is haunting about our hearts? Some people who receive transplanted hearts report a strange feeling of connection to […]
December Issue: NHS on Trial
In today’s summary, we present Putting the NHS England on trial: uncertainty-as-power, evidence and the controversy of PrEP in England by Maurice Nagington and Tony Sandset. The authors provide a short explanation of their work below, and have also provided short audio that speaks to why the topic is important to them. Connect with them […]
From the December Issue: From hermeneutics to heteroglossia
In today’s post, we preview From hermeneutics to heteroglossia: ‘The Patient’s View’ revisited, by Benjamin Chin-Yee, MD MA, and his co-authors, Pablo Diaz, Pier Bryden, Sophie Soklaridis, and Ayelet Kuper. Read the article here at BMJ MH. A short audio clip and summary appears below: Summary: History of medicine is often written from the perspective […]
David Kilgannon on disability and activism in Ireland
In today’s post, we want to preview one of the pieces for our December double issue, Public attention for private concerns: intellectual disability parents’ organisations in the Republic of Ireland, 1955–1970. This article looks at the role of disability organisations in Ireland during the mid-twentieth century. Internationally this was a period of significant change for […]
December Special Issue: David Cooper on Heart Transplant
In today’s post, we preview the work of David K. C. Cooper, “Heart Surgery and Transplantation – Innovations Impacting on Concepts of Life and Death.” For centuries, the heart has been looked upon differently from other vital organs, even if those organs are equally important in sustaining life. Today, very many heart operations are performed […]