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{"title":"'Uyun Teta: blindness, sightedness and the stories in-between.","authors":"Abir Hamdar","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013300","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013300","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article is a critical and creative essay that employs the story of my late maternal grandmother's experience of blindness to interrogate the relationship between blindness and sight in the context of contemporary Lebanese social, cultural and political life. To this end, the essay draws on retrospective autoethnography and memoirs as well as on critical disability studies and visual culture to reflect on broader notions of seeing and unseeing. In addition, I also incorporate a creative component to imaginatively narrate the relation of blindness and sight, especially in contexts marked by multiple forms of sociopolitical vulnerability and fragility.</p>","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"226-233"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144993681","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}

{"title":"From comics to care: exploring the education potential of graphic novel in organ transplantation journey.","authors":"Veronica Moretti, Enrica Baraldi, Patrizia Burra, Stefano Ratti","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013277","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013277","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Organ transplantation profoundly enhances survival and quality of life for patients with end-stage organ failure but presents challenges such as lifelong immunosuppression, complications and psychosocial stress. The graphic novel <i>I nuovi noi</i> ('Our new selves') leverages Graphic Medicine to address these challenges, combining visual storytelling with healthcare insights. Developed collaboratively with patients, healthcare professionals and artists, the graphic novel offers an empathetic narrative that fosters understanding, improves treatment adherence and enhances communication. Based on structured interviews with 36 different healthcare professionals, this study evaluates the novel's impact on post-transplant care, underscoring the potential of Graphic Medicine to enrich medical education and patient support frameworks. Our analyses of healthcare professionals' opinions reveal the graphic novel's educational potential on three levels: health professionals, patients who had transplants and the public. The findings underscore the importance of tailoring communication tools to specific populations to maximise their impact in medical education and patient care.</p>","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"216-225"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13217104/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145081792","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}

{"title":"Interrogating our past to shape the future: lessons for decolonised global health.","authors":"Mavis Machirori","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2025-013468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147983852","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}

{"title":"From panels to placentas: graphic novels, dramaturgy and the reconfiguration of life writing in medicine.","authors":"Sabina Dosani","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2026-014162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2026-014162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":"52 2","pages":"155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147983789","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}

{"title":"<i>Performing Endometriosis</i> as placental dramaturgy.","authors":"Verónica Rodríguez, Magdalena Mosteanu","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2024-013102","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2024-013102","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Performing Endometriosis</i> is an autopathographic piece, written and performed by VR and directed by MM (coauthors of the present article). Divided into very short scenes (called Glimpses), <i>Performing Endometriosis</i> is a solo work about VR's lived experience of stage 4 endometriosis, where audiences are invited to encounter some key moments in her chronic illness journey. Most often experienced by women, endometriosis occurs when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus appears elsewhere in the body, becoming entrapped and finding no bodily exit. One of the uterus' healthy functions (if pregnancy occurs) is developing placenta, a disc of tissue that, among other things, provides nourishment to new life and is spontaneously delivered once it has performed its function. Departing from the ambivalently proliferative character of uteri and looking at feminist theory, feminist pedagogy in theatre training and the medical and health humanities, this article discusses the methodology used during the creative process of <i>Performing Endometriosis</i>, that is, placental dramaturgy. Originally developed towards performance-making, placental dramaturgy is a creative process characterised by a co-nurturing yet independent sense of collaboration. This article unpacks 'placental dramaturgy' with the aim of its replication in other feminist creative processes towards the making and delivering of performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"182-189"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145208012","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}

{"title":"How far back does medical consent go? A journey through Ottoman legal records in Ottoman Empire.","authors":"Özlem Yenerer Çakmut, Alev Özeroğlu, Gürkan Sert","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013477","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013477","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tracing the evolution of informed consent from the Hippocratic tradition to the Ottoman Empire reveals its enduring role as a fundamental ethical principle supporting patient autonomy. Spanning diverse medical and cultural landscapes-including Ancient Greece, Byzantium, Islamic medicine and Ottoman legal practices-this historical trajectory uncovers a continuous and evolving dialogue between physicians and patients. It reflects a persistent recognition of the moral and practical necessity for physicians to share medical information and for patients to engage voluntarily in decisions regarding their health. A particularly significant historical juncture is found in the Ottoman Empire. Especially noteworthy are 16th-century and 17th-century court records from Istanbul, which provide some of the earliest concrete examples of formalised patient consent in the Ottoman era. These records, found in qadi (kadı) sicilleri (Ottoman court registers), document patients giving explicit permission-often witnessed and recorded-for surgical procedures. In our study, we employed a methodology that began with a systematic review of relevant national and international literature, followed by the examination of qadi court records from the years 1579 to 1663. Through a concept-based search, 21 documents from the Istanbul Province's kadı registers were located, analysed and evaluated in terms of their informed consent elements. Such documentation demonstrates that informed consent, although not institutionalised in the modern sense, was already being practised as a legally and ethically meaningful process. These examples represent not only a cultural and legal continuity from earlier historical practices but also a key moment in the formal recognition of the patient's voice in medical decision-making. By analysing these sources, the study not only reveals how these legal responsibilities were understood and practised in premodern contexts, but also offers valuable historical insight that enriches contemporary discourse on medical ethics and law. This continuity shows that informed consent is not merely a modern legal formality, but a long-standing ethical commitment embedded across cultures and civilisations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"199-204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144973748","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}

{"title":"Communicating multispecies planetary health through multimodal humour and satire.","authors":"Massih Zekavat","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013359","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013359","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the role of humour and satire in promoting multispecies planetary health, with a focus on the work of Indian cartoonist Rohan Chakravarty. Following a critical examination of anthropocentric perspectives in planetary health, the study examines how multimodal satirical narratives critique anthropocentrism, capitalism and environmental injustice through a qualitative analysis of his <i>Green Humour</i> series, while advocating for a holistic understanding of health that integrates human, non-human and ecological well-being. The analysis highlights the potential of humour and satire to engage diverse audiences, encouraging critical reflection on human-nature relationships, challenging systemic inequities and fostering a biocentric perspective. By addressing intersections of race, coloniality, gender and interspecies relationships, the study demonstrates how satirical communication can subvert traditional paradigms and encourage reflection on deeper environmental issues. The findings suggest that humour and satire offer a promising strategy for advancing planetary health, particularly in the context of climate change and global multispecies health promotion.</p>","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"254-263"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145226252","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}

{"title":"Purity as power: orthorexia nervosa and the moral governance of health in neoliberal wellness culture.","authors":"Omer Horovitz","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013331","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013331","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Orthorexia nervosa (ON) - a pathological obsession with healthy eating - has emerged as a cultural pathology intricately woven into neoliberal ideologies and biopolitical regimes. This paper critically analyses ON through the lens of power, foregrounding Foucault's concept of biopower and contemporary theories of moral governance, digital surveillance and gendered health expectations. It argues that the rise of ON is not merely a psychological phenomenon but a reflection of broader socio-political forces that moralise food, discipline bodies and construct health as an individualised, virtuous identity. Clean eating becomes a moral imperative; health becomes a site of self-surveillance; and digital wellness culture functions as a disciplinary apparatus. Drawing on interdisciplinary frameworks, it offers a socio-cognitive model of ON shaped by psychological vulnerability, algorithmically curated content and neoliberal demands for bodily optimisation. This work calls for a re-theorisation of ON that situates it within contemporary ideological terrain. It offers a novel socio-cognitive model that links individual psychopathology with biopolitical power, digital culture and gendered health expectations. It provides critical insights into mental health practice, public health policy and feminist thought critique.</p>","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"156-162"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145070695","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}

{"title":"Memoirs of amnesia: filial narratology of contemporary amnesiac writing in Taiwan.","authors":"Chung-Jen Chen","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013284","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2025-013284","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contemporary Taiwanese literature has witnessed an emergence of narratives addressing cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease, constituting a significant literary phenomenon that merits scholarly attention. These narratives often delve into intergenerational dynamics between ageing parents, whose stories are untold, and their adult children, who emerge as literary voices. Through the filial narratives of amnesia, writers reveal the relational nature of memory itself. Through theoretical frameworks of Asian gerontology and narrative medicine, this study examines how Taiwanese dementia narratives function as critical interventions in public humanities and cultural discourse. The analysis reveals how authors employ collective memory to reconstruct the lived experiences of individuals affected by cognitive decline, illuminating memory's inherently relational nature within sociocultural matrices of identity formation. These narratives negotiate complex intersections of intergenerational relationships, socioeconomic stratification and eldercare practices while challenging hegemonic cultural narratives about ageing, thereby reshaping societal understanding of cognitive ageing in contemporary East Asian contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"205-215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145543030","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}

{"title":"Relevance of Georg Grosz's Weimar-era drawings to promoting social justice and health equity in contemporary society.","authors":"Eberechukwu Akadinma, Dennis Raphael","doi":"10.1136/medhum-2024-013132","DOIUrl":"10.1136/medhum-2024-013132","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The arts and humanities can direct attention to the health-threatening effects of adverse living and working conditions and the political and economic systems that spawn them. Most of these efforts aim to improve healthcare by promoting empathy and sensitivity among health professionals towards patients and improving clinical skills. However, less effort is devoted towards improving living and working conditions-the structural and social determinants of health-that cause illness and make managing illness difficult. Using the arts and humanities to suggest how society could be changed to promote health is even less common, especially in regard to our economic system of capitalism. In this paper, we consider how the acerbic art of Georg Grosz, which critiqued the political, economic and social life of Weimar-period Germany, may find renewed relevance to the contemporary scene in Canada and other nations under the thrall of neoliberal approaches to governance. We suggest that Grosz's art can be a rich stimulus for promoting social justice and health equity through reflection and discussion, research, and then action to direct attention to how living and working conditions threaten health and how the economic and political systems that create these health-threatening conditions can be reformed or replaced. These activities can take place in classrooms, as part of professional development activities, or form the basis of research studies and advocacy efforts. Evidence of the usefulness of this approach obtained through discussions with undergraduate health studies students is presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":46435,"journal":{"name":"Medical Humanities","volume":" ","pages":"166-181"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145034515","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}