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Critical retelling of dental ethics told through 'George Washington's Complete Denture'. 通过《乔治·华盛顿的全口假牙》对牙科伦理的批判性重述。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013151

Eleanor Fleming, Patricia Neville

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Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric-gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry. 叙事性医学介入妇产科工作层，通过共同创作的特定地点诗歌来讨论月经大出血的社会耻辱感。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013150

Heleen Eising, Elsemarijn Leijenaar, Ramsey Nasr, Renate van Leuken, Marlies Bongers, Megan Milota

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Evoking Brecht's A Worker's Speech to a Doctor: developing clinical skills, deepening understanding and promoting action on living and working conditions, or mobilisation for system reform or transformation? 唤起布莱希特的《工人对医生的演讲》：发展临床技能，加深对生活和工作条件的理解并促进行动，还是动员系统改革或转型？

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013159

Humairaa Karodia, William MacGregor, Dennis Raphael

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Negotiating uncertainties: care-seeking in an algorithmic society. 协商不确定性：算法社会中的求医。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012921

Rui Liu, Susanne Lundin, Emma Eleonorasdotter

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Diagnosis: undervalued. A psychoanalytic exploration of doctor strikes in the British National Health Service, 2023-2024. 诊断:低估。2023-2024年英国国家卫生服务部门医生罢工的精神分析探索。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013208

Sarah M Ramsey

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Architecture for mental health. 心理健康建筑。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013155

Roberto Rusca

{"title":"Architecture for mental health.","authors":"Roberto Rusca","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2024-013155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013155","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims at establishing if anything has been learnt from 140 years of modern architecture when it comes to designing for inpatient mental health and to identifying how architecture can contribute to the development of low stress psychiatric units. Creative architects have generally rejected the 'classical language' of architecture. The principles of modern architecture can be applied to the design of psychiatric units. The effects of living conditions on the human mind had already been addressed in the 1920s. More recent studies have looked at links between ward design and aggression, aimed at identifying environmental stress-reducing factors. Environmental psychology studies, along with the work of 261 architects over a span of 140 years and of 32 major architectural firms, were reviewed. Aggression seems to be linked to factors such as crowding, noise, lack of privacy and the lack of stress-reducing positive distractions. Out of 261 architects, 22 (8.42%) designed hospital buildings and only five (1.91%) were involved in designing psychiatric hospitals. Out of 69 recently built modern hospitals, 18 were psychiatric hospitals (26.08%). Principles of modern architecture have been sporadically implemented in older hospital buildings, rarely in psychiatric units, more frequently in some recently built psychiatric hospitals, hopefully to create low stress environments that could speed up recovery, reduce costs, enhance staff satisfaction and recruiting.","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524565","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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Engineering organs, hopes and hybridity: considerations on the social potentialities of xenotransplantation. 工程器官、希望与杂交：对异种器官移植社会潜力的思考。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013061

Johannes Kögel, Peta S Cook, Nik Brown, Amy Clare, Megan H Glick, Kristofer Hansson, Markus Idvall, Susanne Lundin, Mike Michael, Sofie Á Rogvi, Lesley A Sharp

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'Are you pregnant? If not, why not?': artificial reproductive technology and the trauma of infertility. 你怀孕了吗？如果没有，为什么没有？"：人工生殖技术与不孕症的创伤。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012690

Soumya Kashyap, Priyanka Tripathi

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Listening to face transplant patients and caregivers: how medical humanities approaches redefine surgical 'success'. 倾听面部移植患者和护理人员：医学人文方法如何重新定义手术“成功”。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013005

Fay Bound Alberti, Dallas Weins, Annalyn Bell Weins

{"title":"Listening to face transplant patients and caregivers: how medical humanities approaches redefine surgical 'success'.","authors":"Fay Bound Alberti, Dallas Weins, Annalyn Bell Weins","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2024-013005","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2024-013005","url":null,"abstract":"A recent review of face transplants argues that overall, they have been successful. But this verdict is based on surgical measures rather than patient-reported outcomes (PROMs), which for historical reasons are in their infancy. These measures are critical to understanding the nature of success in face transplants, and the evidence from mixed systems of healthcare, as in the USA, reveals that there are significant ethical and social concerns about the well-being of patients. Medical humanities research that focuses on the lived experience of patients and their caregivers can contribute significantly to the discussion by focusing on patient voices and the measures that matter outside of surgical contexts. This article builds on existing work and original interviews with face transplant recipients and their families from an emotion history perspective. It argues that surgical measures used in isolation can be misleading. We need a more holistic understanding of outcomes-financial, psychological and emotional as well as medical-that requires the insights drawn from the humanities and transforms the definition and measurement of 'success'.","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":"51 1","pages":"154-160"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11877081/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Implications of task shifting on power relations in healthcare: the case of clinical officers at public hospitals in Malawi. 任务转移对医疗保健领域权力关系的影响：马拉维公立医院临床官员的案例。

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Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012867

Paliani Chinguwo

{"title":"Implications of task shifting on power relations in healthcare: the case of clinical officers at public hospitals in Malawi.","authors":"Paliani Chinguwo","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2023-012867","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2023-012867","url":null,"abstract":"In Malawi, there exists a group of medical professionals known as clinical officers (COs) who assume responsibilities typically carried out by doctors due to the current scarcity of the latter. This paper seeks to explain how the introduction of COs as part of implementing task shifting in healthcare, unintentionally became a terrain for the contestation of power between COs and physicians. The research from which this paper originates used a qualitative research approach. It was carried out in state-owned facilities, encompassing four district hospitals and one central hospital in Malawi. This paper develops a conceptual framework on power and then uses it to demonstrate that task shifting through the introduction of COs as substitutes for physicians, became a source of interprofessional conflicts. The paper argues that unequal power relations between COs and physicians in healthcare contribute to interprofessional conflicts. The paper further demonstrates that unequal power relations between COs and physicians are manifested through differences in educational backgrounds and work experiences as well as unequal responsibility and authority. The paper concludes that the interprofessional conflicts between COs and physicians arising from unequal power relations ultimately aggravate poor psychosocial well-being among COs.","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"26-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141724716","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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