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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Medical Humanities"”.
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Critical Interventions in the Medical Humanities
… novel critical theoretical interventions in the medical humanities. The first uses Benjamin’s critical theory of art in the age of its technological reproducibility to reveal that the evidence-based biomedical model’s primary function is not to cure patients, but to prescribe politics. The …
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Museum-worthy smartwatches: A medical humanities perspective
This thesis focuses on the relationships that bind people to their smartwatches along the Sea Point Promenade in the city of Cape Town. The study identifies smartwatches as objects with immense social, personal, and interpersonal traction. Materiality in anthropology is well explored and offers a …
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Imagining a NeoFreudian Mind Interface: A Normative Model of Medical Humanities Research
This thesis argues for a new theory of medical humanities practice and research, known as Mind Interface Theory. It begins with the claim that Sigmund Freud expanded medical metaphysics considerably in "A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis," and that this expansion affords the possibility of …
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What It Means to Be a Medical Humanities Scholar: Building a Professional Identity
The field of medical humanities has no clear declaration of the what, why, who, and how, and development of a more cohesive professional identity has received little attention in research. Developing a more cohesive profession is important for continued growth of medical humanities and its scholars …
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Beyond opioid regulation: Why a social and cultural analysis of pain in America is a prerequisite for ethical evidence-based pain policy
… analyses of pain. Using the lenses of the medical humanities, I complete an interdisciplinary analysis of pain in the United States. Centering on ethics, policy, and the history of medicine, this analysis forms the theoretical framework upon which I erect a series of evidence-based policy …
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Medicine's Eschatological Narrative and the Challenge of Elder Suffering
This dissertation uses texts and methods of the medical humanities to interrogate the troubled relationship between modern American medicine and the mystery of human suffering. Methods used include conceptual analysis, close reading and comparison of historical texts, and narrative interpretation. …
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Learners' and Patients' Experiences of Disgust in Academic Medicine
Disgust is a part of medical education. Whether in the anatomy lab, the operating room, or the hospital wards, medical school is often the first time that future doctors see human suffering manifested in bodies that elicit embarrassment, disgust and fear. Over the course of training, seeing such …
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Art and the Human Condition: Incorporating Visual Analysis of Artworks into a Undergraduate Pre-Medicine Curriculum
… (ARTH 361), which will be a part of the optional Medical Humanities minor for the pre-medicine students at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Dr. Margaret Lindauer, Associate Professor of Art History at VCU has directed the development of this course. She oversaw the creation of the …
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Religion, Emotion, and Spirituality in American Hospital Childbirth
This project uses the theoretical lenses of the medical humanities to contextualize 48 interviews that I conducted with providers and patients who labor in hospital settings. Selecting for women and providers who view spirituality or religion as important components of hospital birth, these …
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Religion, Emotion, and Spirituality in American Hospital Childbirth
This project uses the theoretical lenses of the medical humanities to contextualize 48 interviews that I conducted with providers and patients who labor in hospital settings. Selecting for women and providers who view spirituality or religion as important components of hospital birth, these …
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Casting Aside Bent Bodies: Embodied Violence as an Everyday Experience for Filipino Migrant Seafarers
… the systems that oppress them. Using a critical medical humanities approach, I question the historical, social, economic, and political production of injury, illness, and death to understand why seafarers do not have de facto access to their de jure health rights. The work comes out of a one-year …
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Literature and Medicine and Narrative Medicine: A Distinction between Terms
… to describe story-based study in medicine and medical education. In this dissertation, I explore distinctions between literature and medicine and narrative medicine and assert that a conflation of these terms is inaccurate. I discuss the legacy of the medical humanities in medical education and …
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Inclusive participatory design of bespoke music instruments and auxiliary access equipment, as emancipatory arts interventions advocating for equality and wellbeing
… design and making, contributing to the medical humanities and social sciences, and to the fields of community music, organology, inclusive design research and disability studies. Bespoke music instruments are significant to Arts for Wellbeing practices and to the emerging Social …
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Mediating alterity: Transitive Indianness in U.S. non-normative medicine
… vitality of indigeneity to modes of inquiry in medical humanities and social sciences to interpret the establishment of the Office as dependent on Indianness. It analyzes the media coverage of founding director Dr. Joseph Jacobs (Mohawk), which inevitably labeled him “the Medicine Man” in …
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Elements of ritual, myth, and subversion in works of Graphic Medicine
… and are controlled in illness, disability, and medical treatment. The unique contribution to knowledge offered by this project lies in its consideration of the ideological struggles inherent in ritual, monomyth, and quest to cut through what has until now been a largely positivist evaluation of …
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Forms of Global Health
… responds to recent calls for a critical medical humanities and a literature of global health by first investigating the function of literature in the development of earlier specialties in international health, with tropical medicine at the turn of the twentieth century as a key example. …
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Reading for Health: Bibliotherapy and the Medicalized Humanities in the United States, 1930-1965
… reading came to seem at once natural, medical, and scientific. I argue that midcentury bibliotherapy functioned in concert with an evolving cultural narrative that I call "reading for health." The reading for health narrative gathers up into a coherent story various and deep beliefs and …
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Perceiving Hysteria: Representations of the Liminal Position of Fibromyalgia in Unconventional Women’s Narratives
… between life writing and the stream of the medical humanities concerned with disability, this dissertation critically analyses representations of what I frame as the liminal position of Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) in women’s unconventional literature. Engagement with the literary, in its …
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Gestalt Biometrics and their Applications; Instrumentation, objectivity and poetics
… philosophy of science, technology, and the medical humanities. These offer examples of ontological frameworks within which the difference between the realm of the instrumental, material, biological, and the objective, and the phenomenal, meaningful and subjective, might be collapsed. Doing …
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Voices of Endo: Cultural Factors Influencing Delayed Diagnosis of Endometriosis
… about endometriosis has predominantly focused on medical diagnosis and treatment options and the public literature about endometriosis has presented self-help recommendations for readers to manage their illness individually. However, less academic or public attention has been paid specifically to …
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