"Wouldn't It Be Easier to Be Burned at the Stake?": Schizophrenia and Deinstitutionalization in Bitter Medicine [0.03%]
“何不烧死得了 schizophrenia 的人？”——Bitter Medicine中关于精神分裂症和非机构化治疗的评论
Shefali,Preeti Puri
Shefali
This article examines the lived reality of schizophrenia and its treatment as portrayed in Clem and Olivier (Liv) Martini's Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness (2010), with a focus on how graphic medicine can represent the c...
The Mental Health Crisis of Rural America: Understanding Supply and Demand [0.03%]
美国农村的精神健康危机：了解供需状况
Nadir Al-Saidi
Nadir Al-Saidi
This essay examines the rural mental health crisis through the stories of the author's father, an Iraqi immigrant and sole private psychiatric provider in a rural Michigan town. Moving his clinic in 2023 revealed the strain of practicing wh...
Johnna P Wellesley
Johnna P Wellesley
Death certificates act as verified records concluding the administrative aspects of a person's life. In the US, the death certificate includes essential biographical information about the decedent, including the manner and cause of death. T...
Existential Competence: Redefining Clinical Excellence Beyond Health Optimization [0.03%]
存在性胜任力：超越健康优化的临床卓越重新定义
Stephen Buetow
Stephen Buetow
Clinicians often focus on measurable health improvements, while patients may prioritize other values, such as autonomy, comfort, and quality of life. This divergence can generate tension between technical excellence and meaningful care. Thi...
Ashley Moyse,Benjamin Frush,Thomas Sieberhagen et al.
Ashley Moyse et al.
The figure of the "medical clown" is a theologically and anthropologically charged vocation necessary for moral critique and healing in contemporary medicine. Drawing on the Oglala Sioux Heyoka and the circus clown, or holy fool, the author...
Gail E Henderson
Gail E Henderson
In the 1990s, China experienced an epidemic of HIV/AIDS among poor farmers who sold and were infected by tainted blood and blood product transfusions, not discovered until hundreds of thousands were infected. In 1999, Wuhan University infec...
Magnanimity in Medicine: The Role of an Ancient Virtue in Health Care [0.03%]
医学中的宽宏 virtue 在医疗保健中的作用Ancient 应改为古希腊文的“古老”而不是美德：医学中的博大胸襟：一种古老美德在医疗卫生中的作用
Justin R Hawkins,Celina Sourbeer,Lydia S Dugdale
Justin R Hawkins
This article explores the role in modern medicine for magnanimity, an ancient virtue defined as believing oneself worthy of great things, while being worthy of them. Through analysis of a clinical case involving a seven-month-old infant wit...
Elise Berman,William P Brandon
Elise Berman
This article critiques the dominance of chronological age in contemporary society. The first section examines the rise of chronological age, linking it to the development of the modern welfare state. The authors then discuss several alterna...
Arthur W Frank
Arthur W Frank
Guinea Pigs and Semplica Girls: On Degradation, Exploitation, and Clinical Research [0.03%]
玩偶女孩与豚鼠：论剥削、贬抑和临床试验中的道德困境
Carl Elliott
Carl Elliott
Drawing on George Saunders's short story "The Semplica-Girl Diaries," this essay explores the concept of degradation in Phase 1 clinical trials. It examines the morality of paying a person to allow themselves to be used instrumentally and h...