A NICE game of Minecraft: Philosophical flaws underpinning UK depression guideline nosology [read the article summary] by Susan McPherson Neurological disorders, affective bioethics, and the nervous system: Reconsidering the Schiavo case from a materialist perspective by Matthew Wolf-Meyer Putting the NHS England on trial: Uncertainty-as-power, evidence and the controversy of PrEP in England [read the […]
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September Issue: Cancer and the Emotions
In our September issue, Dr. Noelle Dückmann Gallagher (Department of English, American Studies, and Creative Writing, University of Manchester) brings us Cancer and the emotions in 18th-century literature. Below we provide both a text summary and a video summer from Dr. Gallagher. Summary In this essay, I suggest that the rhetoric of today’s breast cancer […]
From September: Minecraft as metaphor for UK Depression Guidelines
Appearing in our September issue, Susan McPherson’s paper, A NICE game of Minecraft,” addressed the “philosophical flaws underpinning UK depression guideline nosology.” Dr McPherson is a researcher in the field of mental health and social care at the University of Essex in the UK, on Twitter variously as @SMhuirich @HHS_Research @ResearchEssex. SUMMARY This paper uses […]
From September’s issue: Enhancing Care through Gratitude
From our September issue: Giskin Day’s open access “Enhancing relational care through expressions of gratitude: insights from a historical case study of almoner–patient correspondence” explores how gratitude was central to the remarkable success of Brompton Hospital almoners tasked with keeping in touch with patients who had received sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis. Hear more about the […]
From the September Issue: “You shall bury him”
In the just released September Issue, we are happy to present “You shall bury him: burial, suicide and the development of Catholic law and theology” by Ranana Leigh Dine (@MacLeanEthics). You can hear a short audio of Ranana describing her work here: SUMMARY People often assume that religious traditions simply offer a blanket condemnation of […]
December 2017 Special Issue: Shame, Stigma and Medicine
Why Shame, Stigma and Medicine? Luna Dolezal and Barry Lyons introduce their special journal issue on Shame, Stigma and Medicine Shame, stigma and medicine by Barry Lyons, Luna Dolezal Shame and the vulnerable self in medical contexts: the compassionate solution by Paul Gilbert A dirty little secret: stigma, shame and hepatitis C in the health […]
The Case of Dr Masajiro Miyazaki Japanese-Canadian Healthcare in World War II
Article Summary by Leticia B. Johnson This article uses the memoir of one Japanese-Canadian physician, Dr. Masajiro Miyazaki, in combination with government records and correspondence, to show the complexity of Japanese-Canadian provisions of health care amidst the ethnic community’s internment during the Second World War. Dr. Miyazaki’s memoir represents the disparity between Japanese-Canadian recollections of […]
‘[Her] Hostess … Is Anxious To Have Her Back When She Is Cured’: The Impact of the Evacuation of Children on Wartime Local Services, England, 1939-1945
Article Summary by Jonathan Taylor Jonathan Taylor’s article, which is based on the study of a rural part of North West England, explores the impact of the Second World War on children’s welfare services. The article begins by arguing that, contrary to existing histories of the conflict, many of the problems associated with evacuees were […]
June 2020 Special Issue: The Human Bodies of World War II: Beyond the Battlefield
World War II: bodies beyond the battlefield Listen to the podcast with the editors by Hannah Simpson, Megan Girdwood ‘Between-time stories’: waiting, war and the temporalities of care by Laura Salisbury ‘Never forget’: fictionalising the Holocaust survivor with dementia [read the article summary] by Sue Vice Special operations: a hidden chapter in the histories of […]
‘Never Forget’: Fictionalising the Holocaust Survivor with Dementia
Article Summary by Sue Vice I was prompted to think about the topic of Holocaust survivors with dementia by reading Emma Healey’s intriguing 2014 novel Elizabeth is Missing. The novel’s premise is that the central character Maud, who lives with an undiagnosed condition of memory-loss, can nonetheless solve a wartime mystery because her long-term recall […]