For scholars working on questions about medicine, healing, health, and illness using theories and methods from the humanities, fine and performing arts, and social sciences. All area studies (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, etc.) are welcome.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड 19: पत्रकारिता से क्यों गायब हैं सवाल in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days ago
फ़रवरी, 2020 तक भारतीय अख़बारों में दुनिया में एक नये वायरस के फैलने की सूचना प्रमुखता से आने लगी थी।
अख़बारों ने हमें बताया कि कोविड-19 सबसे अधिक जानलेवा है। लेकिन यह नहीं बताया कि हमारी हिंदी पट्टी में टी.बी, चमकी बुख़ार, न्यूमोनिया, मलेरिया आदि से मरने वालों की एक विशाल संख्या है। इन बीमारियों से सिर्फ़ हिंदी पट्टी में हर साल 5 से 7 लाख…[Read more] -
Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Epidemiology in the Bhelasaṃhitā: The Chapter on Distinctions According to Land and People in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
Presentation in the working group “History of Science in Early South Asia” at https://www.chstm.org/early-south-asia on Dec. 19th 2022.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited बजट 2021: मौत, अकाल की आहट और आर्थिक असमानता पर चुप्पी क्यों? in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
भारत में क्या हालत हो चुकी है, इसका अनुमान दिसंबर, 2020 में हुए एक सर्वेक्षण से लगता है। इस सर्वेक्षण के अनुसार भारत की आधी से अधिक आबादी को कोरोना-काल में पहले की तुलना में कम भोजन मिल रहा है। इनमें ज़्यादातर दलित और आदिवासी हैं।
लेकिन इन सूचनाओं से भी अधिक भयावह यह है कि भारत का बौद्धिक वर्ग, ग़रीबों के सर पर मँडराते मौत के इस साये से प्…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Medication or Magic? Mantras in Early Āyurveda in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
The seminal 1989 study “Mantra in Ayurveda” by Kenneth G. Zysk1 describes four areas in which mantras were used in early Ayurveda: the treatment of wounds and swellings/tumours, of poisoning, of mental disorders, and the collection and preparation of certain medicines. Although this article is a highly important contribution to the study of the…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Medication or Magic? Mantras in Early Āyurveda in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
The seminal 1989 study “Mantra in Ayurveda” by Kenneth G. Zysk1 describes four areas in which mantras were used in early Ayurveda: the treatment of wounds and swellings/tumours, of poisoning, of mental disorders, and the collection and preparation of certain medicines. Although this article is a highly important contribution to the study of the…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited COVID-19, science and responsibility of the intellectuals in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
The coronavirus-induced lockdown hasn’t just eroded our physical liberty; it has also eroded our intellectual freedom. Our freedom to think has been put under lock and key. Clearly, we are on the threshold of a dangerous phase. Which way we go from here will depend on how soon and how well we gauge the danger and start exploring the ways to c…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महामारी के दौर में डॉक्टरों की भूमिका, सीमाएं और प्रोटोकॉल के कुछ सवाल in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
अधिकांश लोग समझते हैं कि चिकित्सक ही जांच द्वारा तय करते हैं कि किसे कोविड है और किसे नहीं तथा अगर किसी की मौत होती है तो चिकित्सक ही यह तय करते हैं कि वह मृत्यु कोविड से हुई है या किसी अन्य कारण से। इसलिए जब कोई खुद को चिकित्सक बताता है या अपने परिवार में चिकित्सकों के होने का ज़िक्र करता है तो लोग उसकी बात पर अनिवार्य रूप से विश्वास करते ह…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Covid-19: Role and limitations of doctors and treatment protocols in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
As was expected, the country is witnessing an explosion of Covid cases, leading to chaos and mayhem. People are dying for want of oxygen. The protocol for the treatment of Covid patients is faulty and that is one reason for the high number of deaths. Thanks to the protocol, deaths due to other causes are also being added to the Covid toll. In this…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Combining Atomism with Galenic Medicine: The Physiological Theory of Isaac Beeckman (1616-1627) in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Although he obtained a medical degree at the University of Caen in 1618, Isaac Beeckman never practised medicine. Instead, he developed an atomistic conception of Galenic physiology by discussing, throughout his notebook, the constituents and functioning of the living body. Interestingly, Beeckman applied his atomistic interpretation to the notion…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Red Cross humanitarianism and female volunteers in Australia in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
Historically the Red Cross has created opportunities for women that were otherwise denied to them in their wider society. This role for female Red Cross workers is not a recent thing and is deeply embedded in the past and psyche of the organisation.
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Kit Yee Wong started the topic Two open access medical humanities articles available for download in the discussion
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
Dear all
The two open access articles I published in 2021 may be of interest to the group:
Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola’s La Faute de l’abbé Mouret
https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4724/
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Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s Degeneration and Émile Zola’s La Débâcle…[Read more]
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Kit Yee Wong deposited Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola’s ‘La Faute de l’abbé Mouret’ in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
This article examines the political role of illness in Émile Zola’s ‘La Faute de l’abbé Mouret’ (‘The Sin of Father Mouret’, 1875) in articulating the difference between a religious and a secular body. Published in the early French Third Republic (1870–1940), this novel shows the Zolian body as the nexus upon which religious and republi…[Read more]
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Kit Yee Wong deposited Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s ‘Degeneration’ and Émile Zola’s ‘La Débâcle’ in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
In ‘Degeneration’ (1892), Max Nordau included Émile Zola in his theory that fin-de-siècle artists were a danger to society. According to Nordau, the ‘false science’ in Zola’s Naturalist novels would erode social progress in their alleged preoccupation with disease, sexual deviancy and amorality. This article proposes that degeneration is, how…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego started the topic Deadline Extended for the Conjuring a New Normal Special Collection [15/01/2023] in the discussion
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Call for Papers: Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes. A Special Collection for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
Special Collection Editors: Alexandra Alberda, Anna Feigenbaum, Julia Round (Bournemouth University, UK). With support from the journal editorial…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemien im vormodernen Südasien? Kollektives Leid durch Umwelteinflüsse und Adharma in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Im Ayurveda bedarf die Entstehung von Epidemien einer gesonderten Erklärung, da sie nicht mit dem dort gültigen allgemeinen Verständnis der Krankheitsentstehung in Einklang zu bringen ist. Das Grundkonzept sieht vor, dass Menschen je nach Konstitution, Ernährung, Körperkraft, Gewöhnung,
Charakter und Alter für bestimmte Krankheiten anfäll…[Read more] -
Vitus Angermeier deposited Causes of collective suffering: The case of the Suśrutasaṃhitā in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Slides accompanying a talk presented at a joint research meeting of the Sushruta Project and the Classical Āyurveda Text Study Group in Vienna, July 2022.
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A. David Lewis deposited Comics after Cancer in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week ago
The term cancer climax is meant as, in the narrative, the building culmination of the illness to a narrative point at which either the ill or the illness finally succumbs; the cancer climax is not necessarily synonymous with the overall narrative climax or peak of the story. Creators might place it at a separate point in their works to impart a…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited The Health-Giving Cup: Cyprian’s Ep. 63 and the Medicinal Power of Eucharistic Wine in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Cyprian’s Epistle 63 represents the earliest extant account of the proper meaning and administration of the eucharistic cup. Against a group of Christians who were taking only water, Cyprian argues that wine is necessary for the ritual to be effective. While there has been much discussion surrounding the biblical references marshaled by Cyprian t…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited Blended with the Savior: Gregory of Nyssa’s Eucharistic Pharmacology in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Humankind, for Gregory of Nyssa, was poisoned through a primordial act of eating the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. As a result, the toxin of sin and death has been blended into the body and soul of each person, dispersing itself throughout the component parts of their nature. If eating and drinking initiated the spiritual and physical…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Charisma Check: A Review of Just Roll with It by Veronica Agarwal and Lee Durfey-Lavoie in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
Like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) itself, Just Roll with It by Veronica Agarwal and Lee Durfey-Lavoie does not reveal itself immediately. The YA graphic novel betrays nothing on its cover, with its summary blurb, or for the first sixty-plus pages of the story. With no overt initial comment, the narrative follows sixth-grader Maggie as she…[Read more]
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