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.
A. David Lewis deposited Comics after Cancer in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks 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]
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 2 months, 1 week 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]
John Penniman deposited Blended with the Savior: Gregory of Nyssa’s Eucharistic Pharmacology in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week 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]
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 2 months, 2 weeks 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]
Sonia D. Andras deposited De la cosmetologie la cosmiatrie: Aurel Voina și manipularea istoriei personale in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
This paper explores the methodological and discursive transition in Aurel Voina’s theoretical conceptualisation of cosmetic science. The primary focus is the rewriting of personal and professional identity, assessing how Aurel Voina negotiated his conceptual and practical expertise from his role as eugenics ideologue and policy maker in the i…[Read more]
Ernesto Priego deposited Of Time, Renewal, and Scholarship: Volume 11 (2021) Wrapped in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
This editorial discusses the articles published and the activities undertaken by The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship during 2021, and calls for research system-wide cultural changes and wider contextual awareness in order to make scholarly communication fairer and up to the challenges of our time.
Anthony Cerulli deposited “Pedagogy, Philology, and Procedural Medical Knowledge” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]
Anthony Cerulli deposited “Disease: Discourse and interpretation in premodern South Asia” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
In this article, I hitch the ever-present awareness of disease in my personal life and our shared world today to a pointed and academic reflection on the ways we consume and re-present information about disease from premodern South Asia that’s contained in texts.
Valeria Graziano deposited The Medicalisation of Politics or the Politicisation of Medicine: The Case of Italian Struggles to Design Public Healthcare Institutions. in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The article follows the contours of a conversation with Fulvio Aurora, Paolo Fierro and Edoardo Turri, three members of the Italian health activist organization Medicina Democratica, which will also function as the backbone of our account of the initial radical
impetus and the later demise of the Italian public health system, the Servizio…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Communication through Advocacy Advertising for Public Health Promotion in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
This research work is an investigation into the reception of anti-smoking advertisements
that make use of “fear appeals”. The objective of the research is to bring audience
perceptions, interpretations and making sense processes of such advertising campaigns to
the limelight. Instead of measuring effects or effectiveness of anti-smoking mes…[Read more]Mark Beumer deposited PhD-Presentation ‘From Asklepios to Kosmas? Ritual Dynamics of Temple Slee in Late Antiquity’ in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
Presentation PhD-project
Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Communicating Breast Cancer in Rural Igbo Community of Southeast Nigeria in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
This study examined the communication avenues for combating breast cancer in Orba, a rural community of Enugu State, Nigeria. To accomplish this goal, 200 women from the community were sampled. The results revealed that 87% of the respondents were aware of media messages on breast cancer; however, 74.5% and 65% respectively, claimed that they had…[Read more]
Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Conjuring the ‘Insane’: Representations of Mental Illness in Medical and Popular Discourses in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
Representation, primarily understood as ‘presence’ or ‘appearance’ with an implied
visual component, is a critical concept in the cultural milieu. Conceived as images,
performances, and imitations, representations propagate through various media:
films, television, photographs, advertisements, and other forms of popular culture.
As such, r…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Chronicles of Eating Disorders from Physician’s Notes to Netflix Series: Representations of Eating Disorders in Popular Media in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
The earliest medical descriptions of anorexia occurred in 1689 with Richard
Morton’s Phthisiologia, Or, A Treatise of Consumptions, however, it took another
century for medical science to accept anorexia nervosa as a medical condition.
Later on, it was Hilde Bruch who initiated the first public discussion on anorexia
in the latter half of t…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Social Media and Slacktivism in Young People’s Life in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
This study examined such issues as social media in personality development
and their influence on the development of public activism among young people.
We also estimate the efficiency that various forms of information exchange
have (shared or anonymous). The empirical base of the research includes
sociological surveys held in Kazakhstan. We…[Read more]Ernesto Priego posted an update in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
From Monday 24 May 2021, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship will only consider submissions in response to our ongoing calls for papers. Full info: https://www.comicsgrid.com/news/446/
A. David Lewis deposited Bringing Superheroes into the Fight against COVID-19 Misinformation in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Over the past year, artists, doctors, medical professionals, and international agencies such as the World Health Organisation have been using comics to communicate the risks of the SARS-CoV2 virus. The visual economy and a near-universal language of lines, balloons, and panels in comics makes them well suited to disseminate epidemic-related…[Read more]
Dominik Hünniger deposited The “Normative Forces” of Difference: Ecology, Economy and Society during Cattle Plagues in the Eighteenth Century in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
One of the recurring themes in the public perception of containment policies during the current COVID-19 pandemic are the supposedly uneven and everchanging measures taken up by international, national and local authorities. This is especially the case in countries with a federal structure, like Germany. Not surprisingly, historical containment…[Read more]
Pruritus Migrans deposited CORVIDS in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
CORVIDS * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
Anthony Cerulli deposited “Epilogue: Healing Concerns in South Asian Texts, Histories, and Societies.” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
This epilogue reflects on scholarship in the study of South Asian medicines and healing traditions at the end of the twentieth century and in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It underscores the growing multidisciplinarity of this field, and it
suggests that the contributions to this special issue signal this development and…[Read more]- Load More