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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"health humanities"”.
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Embodied Experiences of Caregiving: Literature as a Lens for the Health Humanities
… understand the human cost and human triumph of healthcare. Each chapter herein engages with the embodied experiences of caregivers, informal and formal, demonstrating the weight of their work and how they are othered from those they care for, the community that surrounds them, and themselves. …
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The Global Health Humanities: Origins, Current Contours, and Future Directions of an Emerging Field
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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A historiography of South Africa's public health care governance affecting health system strength from the 1940s to 2023
… labour and various forms of racist economic, health and land policies entrenched deliberate social disintegration in the country. The political economy formalised the maldistribution of health by ensuring the expansion of debilitating diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS throughout the …
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Exploring the Impact of Digital Storytelling for Health
… recorded by patients and staff within the SBUHB health board locality, and reflective stories captured with staff from SBUHB, reflecting on the impacts digital stories bring to the health care environment and how we may measure these changes.<br/><br/>Digital storytelling is an emerging method of …
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The Virus in the Garrison: Contagious Disease in Canadian Fiction
This dissertation analyzes Canadian representations of contagious disease in novels written after the emergence of HIV/AIDS. Ultimately, I argue that contagion in literature registers distinctive fears about the fluid and changeable nature of Canadian communities in an increasingly globalized …
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Critical Interventions in the Medical Humanities
… 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 technological …
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Medications in Lady Audley's Secret: Medicine as Historical Symbol and Literary Device
<p>As an archetypal sensation novel, <em>Lady Audley’s Secret</em> by Mary Elizabeth Braddon explores the boundaries of both crime and insanity. As the main character, Robert Audley, investigates the mysterious disappearance of his close friend, he begins to suspect that his uncle’s new wife, Lucy …
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Madness in 20th and 21st century francophone Caribbean women writers
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Dogs as Healers: Explorations of How Dogs Promote Healing and Their Role as Healers
… Rather, healers are mainly considered to be healthcare professionals such as doctors and nurses. In this thesis, I aim to understand what a healer is and who is a healer, thus expanding who can be a healer to dogs. To do this I explore dogs as healers in three ways. First, I examine the ways …