Article Summary by Marija Brujić An overly positive memory of life in socialist Yugoslavia, called Yugonostalgia, is very dominant among the public in contemporary Serbian post-socialist society. People who used to live in former Yugoslavia still talk with pride about the quality of life during that time, including the quality of its health system and […]
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Decolonising ‘Man’, Resituating Pandemic: An Intervention in the Pathogenesis of Colonial Capitalism
Article Summary by Rosemary J Jolly I use the Humanities to expose how we conceive of the human as a construction that can be changed. I counter Enlightenment Man, the basic ‘unit’ of Western medicine, with the African humanism of Es’kia Mphahlele. Mpahlele describes humans as needing to live with, rather than exploiting, non-human animals […]
Living with COVID: What We Learned from Patients with Incurable Cancer During Challenging Times
Blog by Hilde M. Buiting, Xiaochang Campmans, Evelien van Alphen, Michel van den Heuvel and Gabe S. Sonke. Although COVID-19 impacted everyday life and destabilized the healthcare sector across the globe,1 few studies have focused on the experiences of patients with incurable cancer (infected or not). Can such patients serve as examples for understanding other […]
When Numbers Eclipse Narratives: A Cultural-Political Critique of the ‘Ethical’ Impacts of Short-Term Experiences in Global Health in Dominican Republic Bateyes
Article Summary by Brenda K. Wilson With short-term experiences in global health [STEGH] on the rise, it is increasingly important to better understand diverse effects on host populations. Much of the current literature on these issues uses the discipline of ethics to inform right/wrong ethical practice; moving beyond such normative benefit/harm reductionistic framings, this research […]
Global Health Humanities, a June Special Issue
Podcast: Brandy speaks to Narin Hassan and Jessica Howell about the June Special Issue: Global Health Humanities This timely special issue presents research in the emerging field of Global Health Humanities. Authors hail from different disciplinary backgrounds, including Medical Humanities, literary studies, film and visual media, the history of public health, rhetoric, women’s and gender […]
Global Health Wars: A Rhetorical Review of Global Health Critique
Article Summary by Raquel Baldwinson In “Global Health Wars: A Rhetorical Review of Global Health Critique,” I examined the rhetoric of global health critique. I was specifically interested in global health critique as it is produced by humanities and social science-based scholars who are situated in the Global North, and who primarily cite other Global North scholars. […]
In Good Hands: The Phenomenological Significance of Human Touch for Nursing Practices
Article Summary by Gillian Lemermeyer The central notion of my research program is that the way we are with each other matters. This idea is grounded in an ethics of inclusion in a changing world and is situated in the close interface between nurses and other healthcare practitioners with the people in their care. I […]
Biocolonial Pregnancies: Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God (2017)
Article Summary by Anna Kemball As part of the Special Issue on Global Health Humanities, this article considers Native American experiences of reproductive healthcare through the lens of biocolonialism. Biocolonialism is a form of colonialism that extracts value and profit from Indigenous knowledge, living organisms, and biological or genetic material. How we examine the relationship […]
‘Living in a Material World’: Frankenstein and New Materialism
Article Summary by Jasmine Yong Hall Frankenstein is generally taken as a cautionary tale of scientific arrogance. The moral is not to “play God” or to go beyond the boundaries of nature. However, what is being described is really a fear of unintended consequences which can be mitigated through better understanding and better control. Scientists […]
March 2022 Issue
March 2022 Issue Disability, relationship, and the negotiation of loss [read the article summary] Brian Watermeyer, Victor Mckinney Health awareness as genre: the exigence of preparedness in cancer awareness campaigns and critical-illness insurance marketing Loren Gaudet From blocked flows to suppressed emotions: the life of a trope [read the article summary] Stewart Justman Health, well-being, […]