Khaled Karkabi,Orit Cohen Castel
Khaled Karkabi
Allister Neher
Allister Neher
Robert Knox (1791-1862) is typically remembered as the Edinburgh anatomist to whom the murderers Burke and Hare sold the bodies of their victims. This association brought Knox infamy and damaged his life and career. Before the Burke and Har...
Literature and disability: the medical interface in Borges and Beckett [0.03%]
文学与残障：博尔赫斯和贝克特作品中的医学界面
Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
Samuel Beckett and Jorge Luis Borges have presented 20th century literature with a distinctive gallery of solitary figures who suffer from a series of physiological ailments: invalidism, decrepitude, infirmity and blindness, as well as neur...
Telling the patient's story: using theatre training to improve case presentation skills [0.03%]
讲述患者的故事：利用戏剧训练提高病例陈述能力
Rachel R Hammer,Johanna D Rian,Jeremy K Gregory et al.
Rachel R Hammer et al.
A medical student's ability to present a case history is a critical skill that is difficult to teach. Case histories presented without theatrical engagement may fail to catch the attention of their intended recipients. More engaging present...
Royal ruptures: Caroline of Ansbach and the politics of illness in the 1730s [0.03%]
宫廷恩怨：安斯巴赫的卡罗琳与18世纪30年代的政治病态
Emrys D Jones
Emrys D Jones
Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II, occupied a crucial position in the public life of early 18th-century Britain. She was seen to exert considerable influence on the politics of the court and, as mother to the Hanoverian dynasty's next ...
Black, white or green: 'race', gender and avatars within the therapeutic space [0.03%]
黑、白或绿：治疗空间内的“种族”、性别与化身形象
Mark A Graber,Abraham D Graber
Mark A Graber
Personal identity is critical to provider--patient interactions. Patients and doctors tend to self-select, ideally forming therapeutic units that maximise the patients' benefit. Recently, however, 'reality' has changed. The internet and vir...
Manuel Vázquez Caruncho,Franciso Brañas Fernández
Manuel Vázquez Caruncho
Frédéric Chopin is the epitome of the romantic artist; he had a chronic pulmonary disease that ultimately caused his death at the age of 39. An overlooked neurological condition is discussed in this paper. We consider the possibility of a...
Martin Kohn
Martin Kohn
Bodies politic: somatic politics and 'meaning making' in medicine and literature [0.03%]
政治的身体：医学与文学中的身体政治及“意义创造”
Margaret Healy
Margaret Healy
Stewart Justman
Stewart Justman
In the late 18th century two medical fashions--Mesmerism in France and the Perkins 'tractor' in the USA and England--appealed to the principle that a single universal force acts on all of us and is responsible for health and illness. This p...