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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。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

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。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

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。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

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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Empathy, the scientific clinical gaze and contemporary practice: a critical reflection. 同理心、科学临床凝视与当代实践：批判性反思。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013371

Lena Halawi, Atika Khalaf

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Suffering and the collapse of language: between the sayable and the impossible. 苦难与语言的崩溃：在可说与不可能之间。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013361

Áurea Esparza, Lorena Garcia, Francisco López Muñoz, Ana Olano, Eduardo M García-Rico

{"title":"Suffering and the collapse of language: between the sayable and the impossible.","authors":"Áurea Esparza, Lorena Garcia, Francisco López Muñoz, Ana Olano, Eduardo M García-Rico","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2025-013361","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the relationship between human suffering and the limits of language, positing that suffering is not simply an experience of physical pain or emotional distress but a fracture in the capacity to articulate meaning. It clearly distinguishes between pain (a localised sensory experience that is potentially communicable) and suffering (an existential experience that involves a rupture of the symbolic order).It is argued that suffering appears when personal narrative is interrupted or becomes incoherent, provoking what is termed a 'collapse of language'-moments when experience exceeds the expressive and symbolic capacity of the subject. This phenomenon is examined from multiple perspectives: the phenomenology of the body, philosophies of the limit (Lévinas, Derrida, Ricoeur) and clinical cases such as trauma, dementia and the diagnosis of serious illnesses.The text criticises the traditional definition of suffering proposed by Eric Cassell for presupposing a narrative self-consciousness, excluding prelinguistic or non-narrative forms of suffering. The text also tackles the issue of epistemic injustice in clinical contexts, where individuals discredit or lack conceptual resources to articulate their experiences of suffering.Finally, the article suggests an ethics of care that involves being open to what cannot be fully expressed, understanding that truly responding to suffering means not just trying to understand it completely or get rid of it, but being there in that difficult space where words fall short, while still providing human presence as support.","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145081787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Emancipation through health: John Harvey Kellogg's advice to white women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 通过健康获得解放：约翰·哈维·凯洛格对19世纪末20世纪初白人女性的建议。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013350

Laura Hirshbein, Mira Sripada

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From comics to care: exploring the education potential of graphic novel in organ transplantation journey. 从漫画到关怀：探索绘本小说在器官移植旅程中的教育潜力。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013277

Veronica Moretti, Enrica Baraldi, Patrizia Burra, Stefano Ratti

{"title":"From comics to care: exploring the education potential of graphic novel in organ transplantation journey.","authors":"Veronica Moretti, Enrica Baraldi, Patrizia Burra, Stefano Ratti","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2025-013277","url":null,"abstract":"Organ transplantation profoundly enhances survival and quality of life for patients with end-stage organ failure but presents challenges such as lifelong immunosuppression, complications and psychosocial stress. The graphic novel I nuovi noi ('Our new selves') leverages Graphic Medicine to address these challenges, combining visual storytelling with healthcare insights. Developed collaboratively with patients, healthcare professionals and artists, the graphic novel offers an empathetic narrative that fosters understanding, improves treatment adherence and enhances communication. Based on structured interviews with 36 different healthcare professionals, this study evaluates the novel's impact on post-transplant care, underscoring the potential of Graphic Medicine to enrich medical education and patient support frameworks. Our analyses of healthcare professionals' opinions reveal the graphic novel's educational potential on three levels: health professionals, patients who had transplants and the public. The findings underscore the importance of tailoring communication tools to specific populations to maximise their impact in medical education and patient care.","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145081792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The future of reproduction in Eve Smith's Off Target and Kira Peikoff's Baby X. 在Eve Smith的《Off Target》和Kira Peikoff的《Baby X》中，生殖的未来。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013321

Aline Ferreira

{"title":"The future of reproduction in Eve Smith's Off Target and Kira Peikoff's Baby X.","authors":"Aline Ferreira","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2025-013321","url":null,"abstract":"This essay analyses two novels that explore reproductive scenarios which may be implemented in the near future: human germline genome editing and in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), dramatised in Eve Smith's Off-Target (2022) and Kira Peikoff's Baby X (2024), respectively.Smith's Off Target considers the plethora of medical, ethical, social and familial implications of germline editing, which is used to modify an embryo's genome and enhance it with traits deemed optimal that will be passed on to future generations, in this way effectively creating designer babies and radically interfering with the laws of evolution and genetic inheritance. The novel deals with the potential unintended consequences of genetic engineering, in particular CRISPR/Cas9. Genetic edits, if insufficiently tested, can have off-target effects, alluded to in the name of the novel. Peikoff's Baby X takes the premise of Off Target a step further by introducing IVG, exploring the multiple ramifications of this as yet undeveloped reproductive technology which would radically change the reproductive landscape as we know it.Meanwhile, the science that will enable germline editing and IVG is advancing rapidly, making it imperative to consider the far-reaching repercussions of these technologies, not only in medical terms but specifically with regard to ethical implications for families and society in general. These novels are powerful reminders that the debate about the future applications of genome editing and IVG needs to happen now. The issues raised by the novels will be analysed mainly through a gender studies and bioethics lens.","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145081892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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