Brooke Kowalke
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Marci J. Swede deposited Transforming Preprofessional Health Education Through Relationship-Centered Care and Narrative Medicine in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThere is increasing evidence that practitioners’ relational skills, such as empathy and reflection, improve patients’ health outcomes. Efforts to shift education toward patient-centered care in interprofessional teams have been made at the professional level, most notably in medical schools. However, reform must begin at the preprofessional lev…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Crip Technoscience in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCrip technoscience
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Enlivened City: Inclusive Design, Biopolitics, and the Philosophy of Liveability in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoShortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Enlivened City: Inclusive Design, Biopolitics, and the Philosophy of Liveability in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoShortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial Practice in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoNew digital projects use geographic information systems (GIS) and crowdsourcing applications to gather data about the accessibility of public spaces for disabled people. While these projects offer useful tools, their approach to technology and disability is often depoliticized. Compliance-based maps take disability for granted as medical…[Read more]
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Suraiya Rahman replied to the topic Using Humanities Content and Approach to Shape Conversations about Healthcare in the discussion
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHello! I’m so glad to find your thread here – I’m working on curriculum in finding meaning in medicine for residents and would love to discuss your ideas about how to go about it. The LARB article was spot on and extremely useful, and I’m reading the Permanente article as we speak. I am not able to private message you for 24hrs since I’m a new…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited Distinguishing the Comic Book Subgenre of Cancer Narratives in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoAn overview of proposed categories for the growing graphic medicine genre of cancer comics (i.e. cancer narratives in comic book form) and an initial theory on the significant linkage between this illness and particular medium.
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Laurie Ringer deposited “With Teeth:” Beyond Theoretical Violence in Gothic Studies in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article collides St. Apollonia’s medieval passion narratives – manuscript illustrations, church screens, and paintings by Francisco De Zurbarán and Carlo Dolci – with A.L. Kennedy’s contemporary short story “Story of My Life” to find out what happens when we move beyond the theoretical violence imposed by traditional approaches to gothic studies.
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Jonathan Paul Mitchell deposited Disability and The Inhuman in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhen presented with the term ‘inhuman’, I was drawn to consider how certain ways of being become associated with the inhuman, how this association is involved in the constitution of what is taken as properly human, and the deleterious effects for those who become associated with the inhuman. I’m going to address these topics in three stages. First…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited It’s Time for LISSA in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReview of LISSA: A STORY ABOUT MEDICAL PROMISE, FRIENDSHIP, AND REVOLUTION (University of Toronto Press) by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, and Caroline Brewer
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Sophie A. Lewis deposited Enjoy It While It Lasts: From Sterility Apocalypses to Non-Nihilistic Non-Reproduction in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn this essay, I discuss salient themes of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I hold that The Child To Come’s main thrust is this: ‘The issue is not that there is no future but rather that there is no sure way of orienting toward that future, either to save it or to survive it’. The chall…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Alternative care and health histories: some case studies to help us imagine the future in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThe movement for Digital Social Innovation (DSI) insists on the need for a long memory to not take anything unexpected as “innovative” just because there is no awareness of what has happened before or elsewhere. In this article we want to briefly collect three case studies from the recent past that have seen social justice movements aut…[Read more]
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Michael Stanley-Baker posted an update in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoPolling the hive mind…. Would people be willing to share here the learning objectives of your Medical Humanities programmes at your universities?
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Hi, Michael. Here are the learning goals on the website for our Health & the Humanities Certificate:
(https://english.wisc.edu/programs/health-and-humanities-certificate-overview/)Learning Goals
After completing the certificate, you will be able to:
-Identify major developments in the history of medicine and the medical profession
-Describe how…[Read more]
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travisclau posted an update in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoJust wanted to share my review of Sari Altschuler’s excellent new book on early American medicine. She raises a lot of important methodological questions about our field, and I find myself still thinking about the suggestions/questions she raises.
Cultivating “Epistemological Humility”: How to Reimagine the Medical Humanities
Also, if…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego deposited The Power of Sharing in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA comic about the power of sharing: a collaboration between figshare, Symbola Comics and La Grúa Estudio.
Concept and story by Francisco De La Mora & Ernesto Priego
Art by Cristina Durán La Grúa Estudio
Design by Daniela Rocha
Originally published as
de la Mora, Francisco et al.. “The Power of Sharing”. figshare, 21 Mar. 2018.…[Read more]
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Rebecca Garden deposited Class and Ethnicity in the Global Market for Organs: The Case of Korean Cinema in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoWhile organ transplantation has been established in the medical imagination since the 1960s, this technology is currently undergoing a popular re-imagination in the era of global capitalism. As transplantation procedures have become routine in medical centers in non-Western and developing nations, and as organ sales and transplant tourism become…[Read more]
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Lois Leveen started the topic Using Humanities Content and Approach to Shape Conversations about Healthcare in the discussion
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoHowdy,
I’m new to the group and thought I’d introduce myself by sharing an article about some of the medical humanities work I’m doing: “Finding Purpose: Honing the Practice of Making Meaning in Medicine,” is about using poetry to facilitate discussions among physicians, among “interprofessional health care teams,” and between healthcare…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego deposited Parables of Care. Creative Responses to Dementia Care, As Told by Carers in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoParables of Care presents true stories of creative responses to dementia care, told by carers, taken from a group of over 100 case studies available at http://carenshare.city.ac.uk/. Creativity, emotional intelligence and common sense are amply shown in these 14 touching and informative stories. Drawn by Dr Simon Grennan with Christopher…[Read more]
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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.
This set of slides was modified slightly from its original version for online s…[Read more]
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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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