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Celebrating Medical Student Poets for 43 Years. 纪念医学生诗人43周年

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09989-8

Rachel Conrad Bracken

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The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker, by Suzanne O'Sullivan. New York, NY: Thesis, 2025. 《诊断的时代：我们对医疗标签的痴迷如何让我们病情加重》，苏珊娜·奥沙利文著。纽约：论文，2025。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09984-z

Lealani Mae Y Acosta

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Reproductive Cryopower. 生殖Cryopower。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09977-y

Stefanie Sobelle

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The Why of Walks. 散步的原因。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09983-0

Pattie Palmer-Baker

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From Elderly to "Patient": Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's Diary of a Mad Old Man and Aging Narratives in 1950s-1960s Japan. 从老人到“病人”：谷崎俊一的《疯老人日记》与20世纪50 - 60年代日本的衰老叙事。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09980-3

Yujie Pu

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Distributed Response to Distributed Intervening: Making Sense of Public Digitalization Through Digital Support. 分布式响应对分布式干预：通过数字支持理解公共数字化。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09982-1

Stig Bo Andersen, Sofie Skovbæk, Aske Juul Lassen, Astrid Pernille Jespersen

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Music in Healing: Leveraging Classical Music to Promote Medical Humanism Concepts Among First-Year Medical Students. 治疗中的音乐：利用古典音乐在一年级医学生中推广医学人文主义理念。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09981-2

Abhijit S Rao, Matthew Dacso, Shelley Smith, Jeffrey Farroni, Trond Saeverud, David A Brown

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Magazines, Meat, and Animal Encounters: Gender and Domestic Medicine in Sarah Grand's The Beth Book (1897). 杂志，肉类和动物遭遇：性别和家庭医学在莎拉格兰德的贝丝书（1897）。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09935-8

Louise Benson James

{"title":"Magazines, Meat, and Animal Encounters: Gender and Domestic Medicine in Sarah Grand's The Beth Book (1897).","authors":"Louise Benson James","doi":"10.1007/s10912-025-09935-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10912-025-09935-8","url":null,"abstract":"In an early scene of Sarah Grand's novel The Beth Book, the child protagonist attempts to create a cure for rheumatism. Having read about the curative properties of snails in a \"story of French life\", she corks up garden snails in a blacking bottle and places them in the oven to render into \"snail oil\", envisaging rubbing patients with her product. This misguided attempt to create a cure explodes, and \"boiling animal matter\" bespatters the kitchen. This vignette indicates three previously overlooked topics that run through the novel. First is that Beth produces medical treatments and home remedies from a young age and continues to do so into adulthood. Second is the influence of the Family Herald magazine, which, I demonstrate, is fundamental in forming Beth's early medical interests. Finally, it foreshadows numerous other instances in which animal bodies function as material in the pursuit of healing and care. The Beth Book is a text of New Woman fiction, significant for its political and moral agendas in relation to the women's rights movement. In scholarship, this context tends to overshadow the medical culture, objects, and encounters which evidence day-to-day life in the novel. This article examines how ephemeral reading material and animals, both living and dead, function in acts of care and the pursuit of healing.","PeriodicalId":45518,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"421-436"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Introduction to Special Issue on Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Centuries. 19世纪、20世纪和21世纪的关怀叙事、关怀材料和关怀物质化特刊导论。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09974-1

Swati Joshi, Jade Elizabeth French

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Who Counts? Care, Disability, and the Questionnaire in Jesse Ball's Census. 谁算数？杰西-波尔《人口普查》中的护理、残疾和问卷调查。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-024-09879-5

Emily Hall

{"title":"Who Counts? Care, Disability, and the Questionnaire in Jesse Ball's Census.","authors":"Emily Hall","doi":"10.1007/s10912-024-09879-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10912-024-09879-5","url":null,"abstract":"In the Biopolitics of Disability, David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder (2015) assert that disabled people are subjected to endless health and government questionnaires that harvest their data in exchange for better care. As disability advocates such as the National Disability Rights Network (2021) have demonstrated, these questionnaires-like the 2020 census-are highly flawed because disabled populations are not asked to shape the questions that will determine government funding and access to medical care. Although data collection is a source of contemporary literary and scholarly interest, few works explore this in the context of disability. However, Jesse Ball's 2018 novel Census examines questionnaires, specifically the census, and illuminates how narratives of disability are warped by the faulty data these objects collect. I argue that the protagonist, a dying father whose son has Down syndrome and requires full-time care, uses what Jack Halberstam calls \"queer failure\" to create a more equitable census that will make possible the kinds of care disabled populations deserve. Rather than create a perfect, objective questionnaire, the father skews the questions and data to center disability in the story of America, as he moves away from recording everyone's experiences and instead highlights the lives of disabled people, their caretakers, and their systems of care (doctors, neighbors, etc.). I suggest that this \"failed\" census reveals those networks and systems of interdependency that scholars like Judith Butler (2020) and advocates such as Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2018) posit would radically change how care is approached, thus rendering the census as an object of care.","PeriodicalId":45518,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"373-385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141856783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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