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Ernesto Priego deposited Parables of Care: Instrumentality, Aesthetics and Utility in Devising a Comic for Dementia Caregivers in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoParables of Care: Instrumentality, Aesthetics and Utility in Devising a Comic for Dementia Caregivers. PDF file.
Presented at the 2017 Comics & Medicine Conference: Access Points Seattle. Public Library Central Branch, 15th – 17th June 2017. Seattle, USA.
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoLiterature, Medicine & Medical Humanities (https://medicalhumanities.mla.hcommons-staging.org/) is the new featured site on the MLA Commons homepage (https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/).
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Oski Illiandri deposited Moderate Concentrations of TNF- α Induce BMP-2 Expression in Endothelial Cells in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoTumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) is best-known as a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine involved in many cardiovascular diseases. During vascular calcification, TNF-α has been reported topromote osteogenic differentiation of human vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). In contrast, there is alack of data reporting t…[Read more]
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Know Thy Body, Know Thyself: Decoding Knowledge of the Ātman in Sanskrit Medical Literature” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoA study of mental disease in Cakrapāṇidatta’s commentary on the Carakasaṃhitā.
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Āyurveda” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoEncyclopedia entry on Āyurveda.
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Āyurveda” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoEncyclopedia entry on Āyurveda.
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Calculating Fecundity in the Kāśyapa Saṃhitā” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis chapter explores the roles of narrative in the development of knowledge about, and rationalization for, conditioning the human body in the classical Indian medical system of Ayurveda.
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “On the allegorization of action for health” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoA study of pravṛtti and nivṛtti in the Sanskrit allegory, Jīvānandanam (“The Joy of Life”).
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “The Joy of Life: Medicine, Politics, and Religion” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoAn examination of the discursive interplay about politics, religion, and medicine in a 17th-18th cent. Sanskrit allegory, Jivanandanam (“The Joy of Life”).
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Mad Scientists, Narrative, and Social Power: A Collaborative Learning Activity” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoNathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories “The Birthmark” (1843) and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (1844) encourage critical thinking about science and scientific research as forms of social power. In this collaborative activity, students work in small groups to discuss the ways in which these stories address questions of human experimentation, gender, man…[Read more]
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Warring Doctors and Meddling Ministers” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoNathaniel Hawthorne’s stories “The Rejected Blessing” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” dramatize ideological com-petition among doctors and clergymen from Renaissance Italy to colonial Boston over care of the body. In the context of Hawthorne’s life, these stories show his foresighted theorizing of medical hegemony and its dangers to public and in…[Read more]
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Warring Doctors and Meddling Ministers” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoNathaniel Hawthorne’s stories “The Rejected Blessing” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” dramatize ideological com-petition among doctors and clergymen from Renaissance Italy to colonial Boston over care of the body. In the context of Hawthorne’s life, these stories show his foresighted theorizing of medical hegemony and its dangers to public and in…[Read more]
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