Article Summary by Dr. John Mulligan Using MD Anderson Cancer Center as a case study in nonprofit corporate medicine, this paper historicizes certain artificial constraints on debates over the role of healthcare corporations in American medicine, explores the consequences of these constraints, and suggests some ways of thinking about how we might begin to unwind […]
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Beyond Messiaen’s Birds: The Post-Verbal World of Dementia
Article Summary by Dr. Stuart Wood Beyond Messiaen’s Birds was inspired by a realisation I had during an arts-based research workshop. The discussion was around how music therapists or other music practitioners make connections with people who are living with dementia. As I tried to put into words how we try to find music for […]
Estranged Relations: Coercion and Care in Narratives of Supported Decision-Making in Mental Healthcare
Article summary by Meredith Stone When you ask people about their experiences of coercion in 21st century mental healthcare do they speak of locked wards, seclusion, electroshock, and chemical restraint? Not always. In this article we report on a study in which we asked people who had experienced mental healthcare, either as a service user […]
March 2020 Issue
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 […]
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 […]
‘Master My Demons’: Art Therapy Montage Paintings by Active-Duty Military Service Members with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress
Article Summary by Melissa S. Walker, Marygrace Berberian and Girija Kaimal As part of a four-week intensive outpatient program for traumatic brain injury and associated psychological health conditions to include post-traumatic stress, military service members (SMs) engage in group and individual art therapy treatment sessions led by credentialed art therapists. In the fourth week, SMs […]
Ferments and the AIDS Virus: Interspecies Counter-Conduct in the History of AIDS
Article Summary by Justin Abraham Linds In the early years of the American AIDS epidemic, numerous AIDS activists and people with AIDS started researching, teaching, and organizing experimental treatment options within committees such as the Alternative and Holistic Treatment Committee and the Treatment Alternatives Program. This paper briefly describes the committees before narrowing in on […]
Exploring Gendered Leadership Stereotypes in a Shared Leadership Model in Healthcare: A Case Study
by Saam Idelji-Tehrani and Muna Al-Jawad Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UK Our article explores how gender played out in a group of NHS hospital consultants who adopted a shared leadership model in their department. We used comics-based research to analyse and present some of our data. Our final comic is shown […]
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 […]
December Issue, featuring Hearing and the Medical Humanities
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our December Issue, which includes original research on a variety of medical humanities topics, and three open access articles. In addition the December issue features a Special Section on Hearing and the Medical Humanities, guest edited by Dr. Bonnie Miller, Musculoskeletal Project Manager, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre MSK Communication Lead, […]