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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。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013361

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

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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 : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013262

Joanna Ziarkowska

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Scenario planning and the medical humanities: envisioning the futures of health and healthcare. 情景规划和医学人文：展望健康和医疗保健的未来。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013691

Matthew Finch

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Working in (and between) art and health: challenges and missteps. 在艺术和健康之间工作：挑战和失误。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013316

Priya Vaughan, Chloe Watfern, Barbara Doran, Ann Dadich, Stephanie Habak, Katherine Boydell

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Metricorexia: the illness is hyper-real, even if the disease is not. 厌食症：疾病是超真实的，即使疾病不是真实的。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2026-014298

Sati Heer-Stavert

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Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research. 哥特精神病区：情节剧、住院焦虑和精神病学研究中的人文个案。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013521

Alastair Morrison

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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 : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013350

Laura Hirshbein, Mira Sripada

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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 : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013303

Sara DiCaglio

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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。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013371

Lena Halawi, Atika Khalaf

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Cases of child sexual abuse (Fi'l-i Şenî') and punishments during the Tanzimat Era in the Ottoman Empire. 在奥斯曼帝国Tanzimat时代的儿童性虐待案件（Fi‘l-i Şenî’）和惩罚。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013448

Mümtaz Dadalı, Arif Hüdai Köken, Nüket Örnek Büken

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