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“It was about making a new kind of slave”: corporeal sufferings of Afro-American woman in Megan Giddings’ Lakewood "这是在制造一种新的奴隶"：Megan Giddings 的《Lakewood》中非裔美国妇女的肉体痛苦

Asian Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/ajmedh-2023-0026

Adhitya Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan Balasubramanian

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The precarious lives of others: studying community, treatment, and precarity in Homebound 他人岌岌可危的生活：研究 Homebound 中的社区、治疗和岌岌可危的生活

Asian Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/ajmedh-2023-0028

Shobha Elizabeth John

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Re-exploration of Oslerian legacy of Osler’s address “Old Humanities and New Science” 重新探讨奥斯勒演讲 "旧人文与新科学 "中的奥斯勒遗产

Asian Journal of Medical Humanities Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/ajmedh-2023-0009

Wenhua Cao, Xiaolin Yang

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