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A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoAnd interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).
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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, 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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Ernesto Priego deposited Parables of Care. Creative Responses to Dementia Care, As Told by Carers in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies 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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A. Lewis deposited No Normal-izing in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoSuperheroes with Islamic backgrounds are nothing new, but their critical study is. The recently released Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Religion, and Representation proposes how best to deploy such analysis pedagogically, politically, pluralistically, pervasively, and persuasively. This roundtable considers the book’s contents through its political c…[Read more]
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Bill Hughes started the topic CFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird in the discussion
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird
University of Hertfordshire, 6-7 April, 2018
The OGOM Project is known for its imaginative events and symposia, which have often been accompanied by a media frenzy. We were the first to invite vampires into the academy back in 2010. Our most recent endeavour, Company of Wolves:…[Read more]
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Shaun Huston deposited Live/Work: Portland, Oregon as a Place for Comics Creation in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn the documentary, Comic Book City, Portland, Oregon USA, I construct a representation of the city as a place for comics creation. In this paper, I distill key insights from my interviews with writers, artists, and publishers regarding the decision to live and work in Portland. My documentary research suggests that creators are attracted by…[Read more]
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Shaun Huston deposited Digital Cinema, Montage and Other Visualities in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDigital technology is enabling a reconceptualization of film and cinema. The pliability of digital media opens up, particularly, the theory and practice of montage to revision. This pliability allows for cheap and easy copying and combining of images, and, relatedly, the transition from film frame to digital screen provides a less precious and…[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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Ernesto Priego deposited Parables of Care: Instrumentality, Aesthetics and Utility in Devising a Comic for Dementia Caregivers in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies 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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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, 8 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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religioncomics deposited Kismet Seventy Years Later: Recognizing the First Genuine Muslim Superhero in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoKismet may not be the first Muslim superhero, but he may be the first worthy of that title. Some buffoonish characters preceded him, and other orientalist caricatures appeared on earlier comics pages, but without either superpowers or other key elements of the genre. This month (March 2014), on the seventieth anniversary of his first appearance,…[Read more]
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Aaron Ricker deposited The Third Side of the Coin: Constructing Superhero Comics Culture as Religious Myth in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe claim that superhero comics culture is a modern religious and/ or mythopoeic expression has been repeated so often by academic observers of pop culture over the years, it has assumed the dimensions of a modern myth in its own right. Critically evaluating this claim that superhero comics culture is in effect a modern religious or mythopoeic…[Read more]
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E Priego deposited Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe call for papers Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics was published on 30 July 2015. In it, the editors made a public invitation for scholarship that proposed meeting points between the disciplines of jazz studies and comics studies. This editorial discusses the motivations for the collection, the editorial methodology, and the…[Read more]
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The case that hero funnies culture is a cutting edge strict and additionally mythopoeic articulation has been rehashed so frequently by scholarly onlookers of mainstream society throughout the years, it has expected the elements of an advanced fantasy in its very own right..
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Ernesto Priego created the group
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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, 12 months agoEncyclopedia entry on Āyurveda.
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