Science fiction and the futures of artificial womb technology: towards a carrier bag theory of design fiction [0.03%]
Andrew Darby,Georgia Walton
Andrew Darby
This article brings together science fiction literary theory and design research to examine how the narrative modes used to frame novel technologies shape biomedical futures. Focusing on current research into artificial womb technologies (A...
Aanya Ravichander,Carson Bohl,Kaitlin Piper et al.
Aanya Ravichander et al.
Careful and intentional language use can improve healthcare outcomes for vulnerable populations. This essay critically analyses how metaphors shape clinical communication with childhood survivors of sexual abuse. Drawing on prior literature...
Cecilia Brundin Pettersson,Jenny Ericson,Martina Isaksson et al.
Cecilia Brundin Pettersson et al.
There is a significant knowledge gap concerning how women with an ongoing eating disorder (ED) perceive the impact of pregnancy on their ED symptoms. Existing research seldom addresses how the unique physiological and psychological changes ...
Emily Vincent
Emily Vincent
At the International Pandemic Sciences Conference in 2024, scholars of science and the medical humanities were united in asking one guiding question: how can we learn from disease outbreaks of the past to prepare for future pandemics? This ...
Core symptoms of PTSD across four millennia: a phenomenological and nosographic analysis - from ancient Mesopotamian texts to modern psychiatric classifications [0.03%]
Walter Paganin
Walter Paganin
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) represents a transcultural recurrent response to extreme events, documented across approximately four millennia of human history. Although formally codified in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta...
Alexandra Zimonyi-Bakó,Barbara Marshall
Alexandra Zimonyi-Bakó
Narrative medicine not only helps to make professional-patient relationships and communication more humane but also supports professional reflection of people working in healthcare by taking into consideration the specific aspects of interp...
'Our problem here is the pig Ebola': local accounts of epizootics preceding Ebola outbreaks in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo [0.03%]
Jules Villa
Jules Villa
Introduction: Despite their potential relevance for outbreak understanding, epizootic reports associated with Ebola scarcely appear in biomedical literature. This study examines local accounts of animal deaths preceding t...
Loren Gaudet
Loren Gaudet
The purpose of this paper is to take seriously the role of the tick in Canadian Lyme disease discourse. I analyse Public Health Agency of Canada Lyme disease awareness materials alongside patient narratives from the 2016 Canadian Conference...
Carlo Galli,Maria Teresa Colangelo,Stefano Guizzardi
Carlo Galli
This paper reinterprets Francis Bacon's Novum Organum as a framework for understanding the visual epistemology of histology. Histology, founded in the nineteenth century as the microscopic study of tissues, is not merely a classificatory sc...
Constructing a medical lexicon: scribal practices in Armenian medical vocabulary [0.03%]
医学词典的构建：亚美尼亚医药词汇中的抄写实践
George Balabanian,Matthew Shen
George Balabanian
The curation of Armenian medical vocabulary from Late Antiquity to the early modern period reflects an intricate interplay between lexical borrowing and native word formation. Medical terminology entered Armenian mainly through Greek, Arabi...