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Strained encounters of the anthropogene: preservation and extinction in Tatsuaki Ishiguro's 'It is with the Deepest Sincerity that I Offer Prayers'. 人类基因的紧张相遇：石黑达木《我以最深的真诚祈祷》中的保存与灭绝。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013282

Lara Choksey

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Death, desire and disruptors. 死亡，欲望和破坏者。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013383

Sabina Dosani

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Correspondence on "Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health" by Garcia-Iglesias et al. 关于 "约会应用程序是健康盟友？探讨约会应用程序作为公共卫生合作伙伴所面临的机遇和挑战"，作者 Garcia-Iglesias 等人。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013106

Dan Wohlfeiler, Jen Hecht

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Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism. 案例会议和副案例会议：提出关于残疾和结构性残疾歧视的不同问题。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013108

Michele Friedner

{"title":"Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism.","authors":"Michele Friedner","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2024-013108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013108","url":null,"abstract":"What might it mean to change the questions we ask during clinical case conferences and to ask different kinds of questions, both in case conferences and more broadly in our clinics, care conferences and research? How might conducting 'para case conferences' with diverse stakeholders, community members and scholars invigorate conversation and surface different kinds of concerns? By 'para,' I draw from all of the meanings of the prefix, including alongside of, beside, near, resembling, beyond, apart from and abnormal. In this essay, I discuss a 'traditional' hospital-based case conference about a young deaf woman who would like to undergo cochlear implant surgery and I compare it to two 'para case conferences' that I organised with disability studies scholars in the humanities, social sciences and public health, in which we analyzed the same case and had a very different discussion. I argue, drawing on disability studies, medical anthropology and disability ethics scholarship, that we must actively consider and confront the role of structural ableism and the ways that it constrains the kinds of questions and horizons of possibility we imagine for patients and for disabled flourishing more broadly.","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":"51 2","pages":"193-196"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144162756","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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Cultural assumptions and the good death: rethinking global frameworks. 文化假设与善死：重新思考全球框架。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013062

Shahaduz Zaman

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'DEFEND, DEFEND, DEFEND': women's HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness. “捍卫，捍卫，捍卫”：妇女艾滋病健康行动主义，体现女权主义表演和激进的善良。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013110

Katharine E Low, Silvia Petretti, Chuck Blue Lowry, Maryam Shaharuddin

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'Future Docs for Abortion Access': lessons learnt from 1 year of medical student advocacy in the USA. “未来的堕胎医生”：从美国医学院学生倡导1年的经验教训。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013041

Catherine R Stratis, Sarah M McNeilly, Carly C Tymm, Alexis L Zachem, Daniel D Baboolal, Adam R Jacobs

{"title":"'Future Docs for Abortion Access': lessons learnt from 1 year of medical student advocacy in the USA.","authors":"Catherine R Stratis, Sarah M McNeilly, Carly C Tymm, Alexis L Zachem, Daniel D Baboolal, Adam R Jacobs","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2024-013041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013041","url":null,"abstract":"Abortion's place in US medical education has long been tenuous. Most medical students have historically lacked adequate abortion instruction, which stands to worsen following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health decision. Trainee-led advocacy through organisations like Medical Students for Choice (MSFC) has enhanced this instruction nationally and globally. While MSFC offers robust resources to supplement institutional curricula, ample opportunities for student advocates to design interventions meeting the unique needs of their local communities exist. Immediately post-Dobbs, all New York City (NYC)-area MSFC chapters formed a novel advocacy coalition, MSFC NYC, to address the evolving reproductive health education and access needs within NYC and across the USA. Our coalition established three key priorities: (1) Enhance and standardise abortion education for all NYC medical students, (2) Strengthen abortion's legal protections in New York (NY) State and (3) Support patients in abortion-restricted states. In turn, our first year prioritised three key initiatives: (1) Authoring and distributing the 'Accessing Abortion in NYC' peer educational resource guide, (2) Supporting a grass-roots political campaign to expand abortion training and access in NY and (3) Launching the now-annual 'Future Docs for Abortion Access' fundraiser. Our multi-institutional coalition united medical students and physician mentors with community-based reproductive health organisations, aligning our advocacy work with our local communities' needs while creating an enduring advocacy presence within our city and state. By replicating this coalition-building model, fellow trainees can not only expand abortion access and education in different geographies, but further student-led efforts to promote various social justice causes.","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":"51 2","pages":"187-192"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144162771","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 quality of qualitative research. 定性研究的质量。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012990

Marinus H van IJzendoorn, Siebren Miedema

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Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field. 性与迷幻：一个新兴领域的广角视角。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013068

Alex Dymock, Zoe Dubus

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Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa. 南非特殊学校聋哑和/或听障儿童治疗性沟通方法中父母观点和参与的探索。

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012900

Aisha Casoojee, Katijah Khoza-Shangase, Amisha Kanji

{"title":"Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa.","authors":"Aisha Casoojee, Katijah Khoza-Shangase, Amisha Kanji","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2024-012900","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2024-012900","url":null,"abstract":"Family-centred intervention optimises the development of communication abilities and academic outcomes in children with hearing loss. Cognisance of family values, respect for family differences and adaptations to cultural and linguistic diversity ensure the collaboration of parent-professional relationships. This study investigated the parental involvement and parental perceptions regarding the communication intervention approaches implemented (i.e., traditional speech-language therapy and listening and spoken language-South Africa-adapted Auditory Verbal Therapy) for children with profound hearing loss. The study was conducted at special schools for children with hearing loss across four provinces in South Africa, where grade-level core skills are taught using a mainstream curriculum complemented by specialised instruction. Data were collected through a parental self-administered survey and a retrospective record review. An inductive analysis of transcripts was conducted, and the Fisher's exact test assessed associations between data sets. Findings demonstrated limited informational counselling provided to parents regarding communication intervention options. Following the initiation of the communication intervention process, findings indicate parental buy-in, fuelled by their aspirations for their child with a hearing loss. Although results suggest that parents prefer a listening and spoken language therapeutic communication modality, this approach is hindered by the lack of culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate care. This is an important finding, particularly in multilingual and multicultural contexts like South Africa. These context-specific outcomes emphasise that communication interventionists must be cognizant of parental-informed decision-making, cultural contexts and linguistic sensitivity for effective parent-professional collaborations.","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"246-259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143013891","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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