Resolving 'Collective Amnesia': uncovering disease outbreaks past to shape pandemic futures [0.03%]
破解“集体失忆”：揭示过往疫情以塑造未来大流行病的应对之道
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%]
跨越四千年的核心症状：从古代美索不达米亚文献到现代精神病学分类的PTSD现象学和疾病分类分析
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...
Implementing narrative medicine in teaching languages for healthcare purposes [0.03%]
叙事医学在医疗保健目的语言教学中的实施
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%]
''我们这儿的问题是猪埃博拉''——关于刚果民主共和国东北部埃博拉疫情之前的动物疫源性流行事件的地方性知识
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...
Repulsive and precious: thinking with the tick in Canadian Lyme disease discourse [0.03%]
越 repellent 越珍贵？加拿大论述中与莱姆病共生的游离式思维
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...
From prerogative instances to histological thinking: a Baconian pedagogy of observation [0.03%]
从特例到组织学思考：一种培根式的观察教学法
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...
"Maybe I'm immune": the twofold precarity of the asymptomatic HIV carrier in Will Self's Dorian, an Imitation [0.03%]
“也许我具有免疫力”——威廉·塞尔福小说《多里安，一个模仿者》中艾滋病病毒无症状携带者的双重不稳定性研究
Arindam Nandi
Arindam Nandi
This article examines Will Self's Dorian, an Imitation, by critically reframing its protagonist, Dorian Gray, through the paradigm of the healthy carrier of HIV. It portrays Dorian as the archetypal carrier-subject of biomedical discourse, ...
Josh Bandopadhay
Josh Bandopadhay
As medical education increasingly prioritises standardisation and algorithmic decision-making, the qualities that define the 'art' of medicine-improvisation, narrative attunement and observational depth-are often marginalised as non-essenti...
Janet Weston,Amanda M Caleb,Allan Arturo González Estrada et al.
Janet Weston et al.
This article offers a comprehensive definition and illustration of the field of public health humanities. Ranging across the disciplines and educational settings of seven different scholar-educators, it offers a clear and detailed discussio...