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Products of Conception: Imaging and Imagining Maternal-Fetal Relationships. 受孕的产物：母胎关系的成像和想象。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09940-x

Sabina Dosani

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Sex in Limbo: Noninvasive Prenatal Testing and the (Un)Making of Sex Chromosome Variations. 悬而未决的性别：无创产前检测和性染色体变异的（非）制造。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09939-4

Shana Riethof

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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 : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09935-8

Louise Benson James

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Forget It: Reading with an IUD. 忘了它吧：带着宫内节育器阅读。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-024-09909-2

Lilith Todd

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Viral Storytelling: COVID-19 Comes to Albany, Georgia. 病毒性故事：COVID-19来到佐治亚州奥尔巴尼。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09936-7

Daniel A Pollock

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Mary Unknown. 未知玛丽

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-024-09867-9

Lisa Philip

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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, by Carl Elliott. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 偶尔的人类牺牲：医学实验与说不的代价》，卡尔-埃利奥特著。纽约，W.W. Norton & Company，2024 年：W.W. Norton & Company，2024 年。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-024-09863-z

Carolyn Riley Chapman

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Shame-Sensitive Public Health. 羞耻感公共卫生。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-024-09877-7

Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal, Arthur Rose

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Wait for Me: Chronic Mental Illness and Experiences of Time During the Pandemic. 等着我慢性精神疾病与大流行病期间的时间体验》。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-023-09829-7

Lindsey Beth Zelvin

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The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19. 长篇大论还是短论?COVID-19后叙事中的时间性、苦难和不确定性。

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Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-11-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-023-09824-y

Katharine Cheston, Marta-Laura Cenedese, Angela Woods

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