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Impact of Islamophobic myths on Indian healthcare. 仇视伊斯兰教的神话对印度医疗保健的影响。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012798

Sana Saboowala

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Living happily alone in Plato's cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence. 在柏拉图的洞穴中快乐地独自生活？关于孤独、技术和存在的形而上学。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012965

Clemet Askheim, Eivind Engebretsen, Marit Haldar

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The Ableist stare: an interdisciplinary, narrative-driven exploration of staring at disabled bodies. 残障者的凝视：对凝视残障者身体的跨学科、叙事性探索。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012636

Spencer James Schmid

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Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD. 反思移情：与 PIMD 患者的专业合作。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012783

Halvor Hanisch, Synne Kristin Nese Skarsaune

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Between medicine, humanities and the law: compiling a living archive of assisted dying. 介于医学、人文科学和法律之间：编制辅助死亡的活档案。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012947

Anna Magdalena Elsner, Vanessa Rampton

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'Who Sanitizes the Sanitizer?': COVID Comics and Sanitisers. 谁给消毒液消毒？COVID 漫画与消毒剂》。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012733

Ishani Anwesha Joshi, Sathyaraj Venkatesan

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'The Doctor in Search of Herself': women doctors' autobiographies, second wave feminism, and the feminist women's health movement, 1976-1987. 寻找自我的医生"：女医生自传、第二波女权主义和女权主义妇女健康运动，1976-1987 年。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012881

Elizabeth Evens

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An alternative theoretical approach to develop a new conception about pain in people with dementia. 用另一种理论方法来发展有关痴呆症患者疼痛的新概念。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012718

Christian Morgner, Karen Harrison Dening, Tom Dening, Barry Gibson

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What can art history offer medical humanities? 艺术史能为医学人文提供什么？

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012763

Suzannah Biernoff, Fiona Johnstone

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Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant? 不透明、差异和不了解：精神病学能从爱德华-格里桑的作品中学到什么？

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012790

Mattias Strand

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