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2024年11月4日 · Medical Humanities accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including Original Reports, Review Essays and Current Controversies. The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help …
Listening to face transplant patients and caregivers: how medical ...
2024年12月18日 · A recent review of face transplants argues that overall, they have been successful. But this verdict is based on surgical measures rather than patient-reported outcomes (PROMs), which for historical reasons are in their infancy. These measures are critical to understanding the nature of success in face transplants, and the evidence from mixed systems of healthcare, as in the USA, reveals that ...
“That’s me at my best”: perspectives of older adults on …
5 天之前 · Creating assistive technology for older adults requires a deep understanding of their needs, values and preferences. Human-centred approaches can be used to engage older adults in technology research to help ensure that end solutions are ethically aligned, relevant and responsive to their priorities. However, the value of cocreation is not universally acknowledged. Older adults continue to ...
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5 天之前 · The Cost of Dying Exhibition: public, professional and political reactions to a visual exhibition depicting experiences of poverty at the end of life ...
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Medical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient experience and the public at large. Led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history …
Postdigital health practices: new directions in medical humanities
Digitalisation has changed the way we understand and practice health. The recent pandemic has accelerated some of the developments in digital health and brought about modifications in public access to information. Taking this into consideration, this programmatic paper sets the stage for and conceptualises postdigital health practices as a …
Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic ...
This article conveys how taking patient knowledge seriously can improve patient experience and further medical science. In clinical contexts related to infection-associated chronic conditions and other complex chronic illnesses, patient knowledge is often undervalued, even when clinicians have limited training in diagnosing and treating a particular condition. Despite growing acknowledgement ...
Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design
2024年12月18日 · Participatory design places a strong emphasis on human agency, user perspectives and democratic ideals of inclusivity and empowerment, and is therefore often associated with humanist principles and values. In contrast, critical posthumanism questions key humanist assumptions about the centred and singular nature of the ‘human condition’. Instead, posthumanism points to the evolving and ...
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the …
2024年8月9日 · In the last two decades, there has been an explosion of scholarship in the phenomenology of health and illness of great practical significance for clinicians and the allied health professions. ‘Healing’ has been distinguished from medical ‘cure’ insofar as it involves a process of existential re-integration even in the face of ongoing illness and incapacity.
Stories of chronic illness: exploring qualitative data through poetic ...
2024年10月14日 · As a research technique, poetic transcription transforms people’s stories and enables deeper analysis and engagement between participants, readers and researchers. Chronic illness is often characterised as a ‘biographical disruption’, which may threaten a patient’s self-identity and equanimity. Such disruptions often influence patients’ perceptions of imminent life changes, social ...