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Medical improvisation and the Holocaust: a microhistory of women in medicine in the twentieth century.

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-10-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2026-014057

Victoria Van Orden Martínez

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The Nazi doctors: a transformation of healers.

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-10-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2026-014089

Yosef Yehuda Scher

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When art anticipates disease: asbestos, conceptual painting and mesothelioma.

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-10-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2026-013854

Giuseppe Mangiameli, Debora Brascia, Giuseppe Marulli

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Naming and framing: how naming hospital robots risks encoding gendered hierarchies into tomorrow's health workers. 命名和框架：如何命名医院机器人的风险编码性别等级到未来的卫生工作者。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-10-13 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2026-013950

Sarah Rosson

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Pituitary neuroendocrine tumour and strabismus in a young woman who died in 1476. 一位死于1476年的年轻女性的垂体神经内分泌肿瘤和斜视。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-10-12 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2026-014199

Paolo Pozzilli, Maria A Camilletti, Giovanna Strano, Andrea Salerno

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Narrating care and medical authority in Egyptian fiction: a medical humanities approach. 叙述埃及小说中的护理和医疗权威：医学人文方法。

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-10-05 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013809

Ihab M Freiz

{"title":"Narrating care and medical authority in Egyptian fiction: a medical humanities approach.","authors":"Ihab M Freiz","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2025-013809","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses how Egyptian novels construct experiences of medicine, care and institutional authority through comparative close readings of Naguib Mahfouz's The Day the Leader Was Killed, Youssef Ziedan's Azazeel, Ahmed Mourad's The Blue Elephant and Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero Situated in medical humanities, it treats literature as narrative knowledge production, articulating ethical and experiential dimensions of medicine beyond empirical documentation. Drawing on narrative and institutional theory, the article develops a four-part analytical vocabulary-bureaucratic waiting, doctrinal gatekeeping, diagnostic confinement and carceral gynaecology-each anchored in sustained close reading of one novel and traced through spatial organisation, temporality and epistemic hierarchy across realist, historical, thriller and testimonial genres. Foregrounding waiting, uncertainty, ambivalence and coercion over clinical outcomes-and contextualised by health metaphors in works like Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's Utopia and Basma Abdel Aziz's The Queue-these narratives expose normalised structural harm. The analysis contributes to medical humanities by expanding its geographical scope beyond Euro-American contexts, while demonstrating fiction's role in generating ethical vocabularies for medicine, power and care that complement clinical approaches.","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116612","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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Entangled vessels: a practice-led enquiry on circulation, containment and connectivity through the plasma illumination of blown glass. 缠绕的容器：通过吹制玻璃的等离子体照明，以实践为主导的关于循环、遏制和连接的探究。

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-10-01 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2026-013988

Harriet Curtis Nee Schwarzrock

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'Who can tell what the future brings?' Cruel optimism and poster children in Great Ormond Street Hospital's 1987-1989 Wishing Well Campaign. 谁能预知未来会发生什么？大奥蒙德街医院1987-1989年许愿运动中的残酷乐观主义和海报儿童。

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013566

Harry James Caton

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What do we mean by 'the Humanities' in medical education? A scoping review of empirical humanities-based interventions. 医学教育中的“人文学科”是什么意思？基于人文学科的实证干预措施的范围审查。

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013537

Mohamad Hemadi, Susan D Lamb, Mathew Mercuri, J Cristian Rangel

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Abortion narratives in contemporary Denmark: the problems of normalisation. 当代丹麦的堕胎叙事：正常化的问题。

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-09-28 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2026-013960

Anita Wohlmann

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