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Correction: The cost of dying exhibition: public, professional and political reactions to a visual exhibition depicting experiences of poverty at the end of life. 校正：死亡展览的成本：公众、专业和政治对描绘生命终结时贫困经历的视觉展览的反应。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-10-22 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012950corr1

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A note on forgiveness: film as case history. 关于宽恕的注释：作为案例的电影。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-10-21 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013538

Robert Clark Abrams

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Charity and children's hospitals-exceptionalism, experiences and welfare. 慈善和儿童医院——例外论、经验和福利。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013469

Francesca Vaghi, Ellen Stewart, Jennifer Crane

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Shaping Indian biocitizens: Americanisation through medical education in the TB sanatorium paper Sioux San Sun (1938-1941). 塑造印度生物公民：结核病疗养院论文中医学教育的美国化（苏San Sun， 1938-1941）。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013262

Joanna Ziarkowska

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The home within care: exploring home-like design in paediatric/adolescent palliative care environments. 护理中的家：探索儿科/青少年姑息治疗环境中的家一样设计。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013379

Sara Nourmusavi Nasab, Rebecca Mclaughlan, Chris L Smith

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Communicating multispecies planetary health through multimodal humour and satire. 通过多模式幽默和讽刺交流多物种的地球健康。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013359

Massih Zekavat

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Performing Endometriosis as placental dramaturgy. 将子宫内膜异位症作为胎盘显影术。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013102

Verónica Rodríguez, Magdalena Mosteanu

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Return to normal? Remembered futures and the post-pandemic. 恢复正常？记住未来和大流行后。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013303

Sara DiCaglio

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From bedside to bed. 从床边到床上。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013525

Benjamin Nelson, Marlene Renee Lawston

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Embodied wisdom: towards acceptable and helpful explanations for functional somatic symptoms. 体现的智慧：对功能性躯体症状的可接受和有益的解释。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013380

Chloe Saunders, Heidi Frølund Pedersen, Charlotte Ulrikka Rask, Monica Greco, Lisbeth Frostholm

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