• Learning critical Black history can change white perspectives on racism in health care

    Updated: 2023-09-30 09:50:46
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  • Historical gendered institutional violence: a research agenda for criminologists - Black L, Ring S.

    Updated: 2023-09-30 09:50:46
    This article considers the phenomenon of historical gendered institutional harm, examining the widespread incarceration of women and girls in Ireland through the decades following independence in 1922. In this period, thousands of women and girls were conf... (Source: SafetyLit)

  • The significance of feeling safe for resilience of adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa - Bandeira M, Graham MA, Ebers öhn L.

    Updated: 2023-09-30 09:50:46
    INTRODUCTION: Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are exposed to several challenges and risk factors, linked to historical legacies. Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest rates of poverty and inequality in the world, is one of the regions most nega... (Source: SafetyLit)MedWorm Message:

  • Impacts of household vulnerability on hurricane logistics evacuation under COVID-19: the case of U.S. Hampton Roads - Diaz R, Acero B, Behr JG, Hutton NS.

    Updated: 2023-09-30 09:50:46
    Historical data suggest that when a severe tropical storm or hurricane impacts a community, the vulnerable segment of the population suffers the most severe consequences. With an increased aging population, it is crucial to understand how vulnerability alt... (Source: SafetyLit)

  • Reversing the Medical Humanities

    Updated: 2023-09-28 09:00:51
    Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About Reversing the Medical Humanities Posted on September 28, 2023 by Chris Pak Article Summary by Helene Scott-Fordsmand In the article “Reversing the Medical Humanities” I make the argument that humanities scholars engaging in medical humanities have tended to think about how they might help improve medicine in different ways – for example by training doctors in empathy and communication , or by acting as a critic that keeps medicine sober , reminding biomedical researchers that they are dealing with living human beings . While medicine is undisputedly an important element in human affairs , I argue that this single-sided focus has ignored how

  • The Food Is Medicine (FIM) Movement

    Updated: 2023-09-27 00:20:34
    Optimal nutrition can be a highly cost-effective, even net positive, government program. The post The Food Is Medicine (FIM) Movement first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • Narrative and Its Discontents

    Updated: 2023-09-26 09:00:02
    Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About Narrative and Its Discontents Posted on September 26, 2023 by Chris Pak Article Summary by Alastair Morrison For several decades , narrative medicine has been the most internationally recognized program for humanities education in medicine . This review article considers new work from within narrative medicine , as well as recent responses to it from other positions within medical humanities , to suggest changes of thinking underway in these fields . Specifically , the review suggests a growing dissatisfaction with the idea of humanities training as a specific diagnostic tool , whose purpose is to isolate predetermined kinds of data about the patient

  • Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?

    Updated: 2023-09-20 00:13:02
    It's not as complicated as you may think. The post Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • Performing HeLa: Theatrical Bodies and Living Remains

    Updated: 2023-09-19 09:00:12
    : Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About Performing HeLa : Theatrical Bodies and Living Remains Posted on September 19, 2023 by Chris Pak Article Summary by Emma Cox My work considers the role theatre and performance play in making sense of diverse healthcare experiences , medical histories , and biomedical technologies . My essay in this issue of Medical Humanities  is concerned with how theatre , as an embodied artform , can make meaning out of the complicated , traumatic histories that have built up around the HeLa cell line and the life of Henrietta Lacks . The theatrical production that I analyse , HeLa by Adura Onashile , sits within a lineage of Black British women’s theatre ,

  • Take a Pledge to Enroll in a Randomized-Controlled Trial

    Updated: 2023-09-08 07:17:51
    As COVID cases and hospitalizations increase yet again, I'd like my contribution to medical research to be more than convincing people to skip vaccine doses. So should you. The post Take a Pledge to Enroll in a Randomized-Controlled Trial first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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