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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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G. Geltner deposited Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Public Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy in the group
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis is a preprint version of my forthcoming book, to be published by Pennsylvania University Press
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Michael Stanley-Baker posted an update in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 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, 9 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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G. Geltner uploaded the file: Black Death and Public Health teaching module for undergraduates to
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe present module introduces advanced undergraduates to the events known as the Black Death (1347-1352) and situates them in the broader culture of medieval public health or premodern prophylactics. It is divided into two teaching units of equal length and interchangeable order: premodern public health theory, policy and practice can operate as…[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, 1 month 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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G. Geltner deleted the file: Bibliography of Public Health in Pre-Industrial Societies from
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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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Christian S. Ortiz Chacha posted an update in the group
Public Health on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoWhat is Public Health?
http://www.jhsph.edu/about/what-is-public-health/Public health as a profession is becoming more and more popular—but what exactly is it?
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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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