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The Lancet. Seeing the humanity in health. Lancet 2024; 402:2395. [PMID: 38142118 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)02837-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2023]
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Elsner AM, Rampton V. Between medicine, humanities and the law: compiling a living archive of assisted dying. MEDICAL HUMANITIES 2024; 50:587-589. [PMID: 38937089 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024]
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Stories about personal experiences of assisted dying, a term comprising both instances when a lethal substance is administered by a physician or by the patient themselves, are frequently cited in law-making processes. These experiences of healthcare systems and the laws governing end-of-life procedures thereby interactively influence the future of medicine at the deathbed. With more countries legalising some form of assisted dying or opening political debate about the issue, addressing how these personal stories shape public opinions and social institutions is timely. In this current controversy, we question how medical humanities researchers are to make sense of the role of these stories in law-making, and critically reflect on a digital archive that seeks to make these interconnections visible. At the methodological level, the reciprocal interactions in assisted dying between medicine, law and the arts urges us to reconsider the conceptual foundations of interdisciplinary research in the medical humanities.
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Davies G, Kirk RGW, Greenhough B, Hobson-West P, Myelnikov D, Roe E. Who cares about lab rodents? Science 2024; 385:1270-1273. [PMID: 39298581 DOI: 10.1126/science.adr6151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/22/2024]
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Humanities and social sciences help advance "cultures of care" around laboratory animal science and welfare.
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Kirschner KL. Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines, by Stuart Murray. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. THE JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HUMANITIES 2024; 45:337-339. [PMID: 38733491 DOI: 10.1007/s10912-024-09851-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024]
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Frampton S, Orievulu K, Matthews PC, Giubilini A, Hordern J, Burns L, Elias S, Friederich E, Majozi N, Martin S, Stevenson A, Vanderslott S, Seeley J. Pandemic preparedness: why humanities and social sciences matter. Front Public Health 2024; 12:1394569. [PMID: 39220463 PMCID: PMC11361931 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1394569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2024] [Accepted: 08/02/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
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Whilst many lessons were learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing reflection is needed to develop and maintain preparedness for future outbreaks. Within the field of infectious disease and public health there remain silos and hierarchies in interdisciplinary work, with the risk that humanities and social sciences remain on the epistemological peripheries. However, these disciplines offer insights, expertise and tools that contribute to understanding responses to disease and uptake of interventions for prevention and treatment. In this Perspective, using examples from our own cross-disciplinary research and engagement programme on vaccine hesitancy in South Africa and the United Kingdom (UK), we propose closer integration of expertise, research and methods from humanities and social sciences into pandemic preparedness.
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Zaragoza Bernal JM. Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change. MEDICAL HUMANITIES 2024; 50:417-420. [PMID: 38649267 PMCID: PMC11347227 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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This article responds to Coope's call for the medical humanities to address the climate crisis as a health issue. Coope proposes three areas for progress towards ecological thinking in healthcare, with a focus on ecological mental health. The article emphasises the need to understand the cultural dimensions of mental health and proposes an interdisciplinary approach that integrates insights from the arts and humanities. It examines the impact of climate change on mental health, drawing on The Rockefeller Foundation - Lancet Commission on Planetary Health and recent studies. The discussion focuses on the intersection of mental health, subjective experience and environmental change. Focusing on emotional experiences as constructed from biological and cultural elements, the article proposes a holistic approach to mental health. It proposes two converging lines of research, in constant interaction: first, a historical and cultural research of those concepts, practices and symbols related to the environment, emphasising a cultural history of nature; and second, a synchronous research, drawing on anthropology, sociology and participatory art-based research, to understand how these aforementioned elements influence our current relations with nature. The article concludes by emphasising the urgency of developing narratives and histories that redirect temporal trajectories towards a better future, while respecting and acknowledging diverse narratives of individual experience. It calls for collaborative efforts from the medical humanities to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the complex relationship between mental health, nature and ecological crisis.
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González-Arias LM, Swain K. Poetry for rewilding the medical and health humanities. Lancet 2024; 404:516-517. [PMID: 38795717 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(24)01077-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2024]
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Deslandes S. CSP and articles in Social Sciences and Humanities in Health: what has been, what is to come. CAD SAUDE PUBLICA 2024; 40:e00107424. [PMID: 39045995 DOI: 10.1590/0102-311xen107424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2024] [Accepted: 06/14/2024] [Indexed: 07/25/2024] Open
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Spezio M. Beyond the looking glass The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking Shannon Vallor Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pp. Science 2024; 385:35. [PMID: 38963848 DOI: 10.1126/science.adq1052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/06/2024]
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An ethicist advocates a moral framework for technology.
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Lackman RD. What's Important (Arts and Humanities): Life, Death, and Orthopaedic Oncology Through Poetry. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2024; 106:1231-1232. [PMID: 38349965 DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.23.01084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
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van Rooyen H. A poetic inquiry: the role of the social sciences and humanities in revitalising AIDS. AIDS Care 2024; 36:223-227. [PMID: 38394381 DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2024.2319840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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For the past four decades, biomedical science has transformed clinical outcomes for HIV and AIDS. However, the social, economic and gendered determinants of HIV remain largely intact. The social science and humanities offer concepts and methods for articulating why these remain intractable. I used poetic inquiry - an arts-based, qualitative approach - as I reviewed literature on the "end of AIDS, and post-AIDS". As I did so, I considered what contribution the social sciences and humanities could make in moving us closer to these ideals. Several themes and found poems emerged in this reading: (1) how language oversimplifies complex social realities; (2) the voices of people living with HIV and AIDS must be included; (3) HIV and AIDS intersects with social inequalities; (4) social and structural issues are no barrier to HIV prevention and (5) the need for radical interdisciplinarity. The paper concludes that the end of AIDS requires responses that are integrated, holistic and that radically challenge our silo'd disciplinary boundaries and frames. The social sciences and humanities are key to this charge.
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Bristol SJ, Fishman EK, Chu LC, Weisberg EM, Rowe SP, Fagundo EL. Artificial Intelligence for Humanity: Perspectives From Outside of Medicine. J Am Coll Radiol 2024; 21:981-983. [PMID: 38000490 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2023.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Revised: 03/11/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023]
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Costa BA. A Ternary Junction for Healing: Intertwining Hematology, Humanity, and Healthcare Diversity. Transplant Cell Ther 2024; 30:551-553. [PMID: 38816167 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2024.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
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Lunardon M, Cerni T, Rumiati RI. Field of Study and Gender Moderation of the Association of Personality and Math Anxiety with Numeracy. THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2024; 158:689-717. [PMID: 38805670 DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2024.2352706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2023] [Revised: 03/06/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024] Open
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Math anxiety and personality influence numeracy, although the nature of their contribution has been overlooked. In the present study, we investigated whether their association with numeracy depended on field of study and gender in higher education. Participants were Italian undergraduates in either the humanities (N = 201) or Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM; N = 209) fields of study. These participants remotely completed standardized tests assessing numeracy, math anxiety, personality, intelligence, and basic numerical skills. We tested whether math anxiety and personality interacted with field of study and gender in predicting numeracy. Results showed that math anxiety was negatively associated with numeracy independently of field of study and gender, while the effect of personality, especially neuroticism, on numeracy interacted with field of study over and above intelligence and basic numerical skills. Specifically, humanities undergraduates with higher neuroticism levels scored lower in numeracy than STEM undergraduates. These findings underscore the importance of emotional experience for a good performance in mathematics, beyond math anxiety and the other personality traits, in the students that are less familiar with mathematics. Finally, no robust gender moderation emerged, suggesting that its role may be overridden by differences associated with career choice.
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Carter L, Mankad A, Okello W. Where exactly do the social and behavioural sciences fit in One Health? Front Public Health 2024; 12:1386298. [PMID: 38813416 PMCID: PMC11135288 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1386298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024] Open
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At its core, One Health promotes multidisciplinary cooperation amongst researchers and practitioners to improve the effectiveness and management of complex problems raised by the interplay of human, animal and environment interactions. Contemporary One Health literature has identified reducing disciplinary barriers as key to progress in the field, along with addressing the notable absence of social sciences from One Health frameworks, among other priorities. Efforts to position social scientists as experts on behaviour change and health decision-making has helped to articulate a concrete role for progressing One Health collaborations. Yet, there are other equally valuable functions the social scientist has in understanding complex systems, like One Health. We make explicit the multiple and diverse knowledge contributions the social sciences and humanities can make to progressing the One Health agenda. Articulating these more clearly invites a broader set of interdisciplinary perspectives to One Health discussions, allowing for stronger connections between sectors, actors, disciplines, and sub-systems. This perspective piece identifies a range of entry points for researchers and practitioners to better utilize the potential contributions social sciences and humanities scholars can make to One Health goals.
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Voeller M, Pohl CA. A novel for-credit DEI humanities co-curriculum. MEDICAL EDUCATION 2024; 58:645. [PMID: 38362718 DOI: 10.1111/medu.15358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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Rajagopalan A, Sim K. Reclaiming the 'person' and advocacy for good clinical care in psychiatric residency training through medical humanities. MEDICAL EDUCATION 2024; 58:623-624. [PMID: 38362618 DOI: 10.1111/medu.15327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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Piccoli GB. Humanities in nephrology: in defence of time in our medical profession. J Nephrol 2024; 37:839-840. [PMID: 38976225 DOI: 10.1007/s40620-024-02003-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/09/2024]
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Shaw KA. What's Important (Arts & Humanities): Our Uniformed. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2024; 106:746-747. [PMID: 39047146 DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.23.01050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2023]
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Zhang X, Duan Z. Maturity model for assessing the medical humanities: a Delphi study. BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION 2024; 24:369. [PMID: 38570818 PMCID: PMC10993615 DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05356-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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BACKGROUND Becoming a first-level discipline in China means access to more educational resources. The development of medical humanities in China has been going on for more than 40 years, and some medical schools have set up master's and doctoral programs in medical humanities. The demand for medical humanities-related knowledge in China is also growing after COVID-19. However, medical humanities is only a second-level discipline and receives limited resources to meet the needs of society. This study aims to establish a system of indicators that can assess whether the medical humanities has a first-level discipline and provide a basis for its upgrading to a first-level. METHODS A Delphi technique was used, with the panel of expert expressing their views in a series of two questionnaires. A coefficient of variation of less than 0.2 indicates expert agreement. RESULT A total of 25 experts participated in this Delphi study. Consensus was reached on 11 first-grade indices and 48 s-grade indices. The authoritative coefficient(Cr) of the experts was 0.804, which indicates that the experts have a high level of reliability. CONCLUSION This study provides a reliable foundation for the evaluation of medical humanities maturity.
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Barker NDJ, Tukkers C, Nelissen RGHH. What's Important (Arts and Humanities): Shouldn't Our GOAL! Be to Find a Better Way? J Bone Joint Surg Am 2024; 106:639-642. [PMID: 38127839 PMCID: PMC10980174 DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.23.00828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Limburg B, Kendall N, Owen P. The Humanities: A Guide to Understanding the Human Condition. SOUTH DAKOTA MEDICINE : THE JOURNAL OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 2024; 77:147-148. [PMID: 38991157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/13/2024]
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Osei-Tutu K. Redefining excellence in health care: uniting inclusive compassion and shared humanity within a transformative physician competency model. CMAJ 2024; 196:E381-E383. [PMID: 38527750 DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.231273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/27/2024] Open
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Collier KM. What is medicine for? BMJ LEADER 2024; 8:55-58. [PMID: 37407067 DOI: 10.1136/leader-2022-000667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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Fanali A, Giorgi F, Tramonti F. Thick description and systems thinking: Reiterating the importance of a biopsychosocial approach to mental health. J Eval Clin Pract 2024; 30:309-315. [PMID: 36444133 DOI: 10.1111/jep.13800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Revised: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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STUDY AIMS The article aims at reiterating the importance of a biopsychosocial approach to mental health, taking stock of the critiques that have been raised and moving forward throughout a reconsideration of the theoretical background of systems thinking and emphasizing the relevance of the concept of thick description for the promotion of an adequate reflection on methodology and case formulation. LITERATURE REVIEW It is our opinion that the biopsychosocial approach is still a powerful framework for making sense of the growing data collected in the different fields related to mental health and for designing proper treatment plans. A crucial challenge for mental health is that of surpassing the dichotomies and ideological disputes that still contaminate the field with detrimental effects on the advancement of knowledge and on the integration and continuity of different kind of interventions. CONCLUSIONS The time is ripe for building bridges among neuroscience, humanities and social sciences, and this can only happen within the umbrella of a biopsychosocial perspective reinstated into its systems thinking background.
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