Knowledge Commons | Medical Humanities | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/ Activity feed for the group, Medical Humanities. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:08:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3ed9a675309a0f5e0353d3db4bdefe10 Meredith Lynn Goldsmith started the topic NEH Virtual Convening: Collaborating beyond the Humanities (Health Humanities) in the forum Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/forum/topic/neh-virtual-convening-collaborating-beyond-the-humanities-health-humanities/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:26:41 -0500 Dear colleagues, I write to invite you a virtual convening sponsored by the NEH Division of Education Programs. More information below:

“Collaborating Beyond the Humanities”

The Education Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities fosters curricular innovation through its grant programs, including the Humanities Connections pro…[Read more]

]]> fd4bf7355a21804cfd27bae1569d7fe3 John Mark R. Asio deposited Comparative Analysis of the In-House Review (Revalida) Program and the Student's Performance in the Licensure Examination for Midwives: Inputs for Program Enhancement in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1903330/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:00:02 -0400 This paper aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the in-house review (Revalida) program among midwifery graduates of batch 2022 in the previous licensure board exams for midwives last 2023. This study used a descriptive-comparative research design. One hundred thirty-five graduate midwives participated voluntarily in the study using a purposive…[Read more]

]]> 0 42586d4c93f5ca19c5fa5d3cd8c62316 Ian Willis deposited Australia Day 1915 in Camden: Record-breaking Wartime Fundraiser in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897195/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:56 -0400 This blog post examines the story of mid-1915, when the Camden Patriotic Fund took over Australia Day fundraising, directing proceeds to the Red Cross for Australian wounded. Supporting the Camden Red Cross, the fund raised substantial funds through various events. Meanwhile, on a national scale, Australia Day's significance evolved, and in 1915,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e796df87189948066df1f94cff08ac9 Ian Willis deposited Camden and the Great War in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897124/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:00:12 -0400 This presentation provides an overview of the Great War's impact on the town of Camden, including its effects, serving overseas and on the homefront, and the collective memory of Camden and the Great War.

]]> 0 31d60db6300767eaf03cffe6cfaaaf0f Ian Willis deposited Camden Red Cross 110 Years Display: Objects and Ephemera Exhibition 2024 in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894889/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:00:54 -0400 The Camden Red Cross exhibition at Camden Library in August 2024 showcased the historical contributions of local women to the Red Cross during World Wars I and II. Women from the Camden district played a pivotal role in supporting soldiers and shaping the narrative of the Australian Red Cross, creating over 20,300 articles in 40,000 volunteer…[Read more]

]]> 0 b025c109d62ba0f4347ec6ae58810d51 Ian Willis deposited Ministering Angels, Myth and the Red Cross on the Australian Wartime Homefront in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894809/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:00:46 -0400 The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 saw thousands of women across rural Australia set up local Red Cross branches. Country women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, King and Country, while they were encouraged to see themselves as ‘ministering angels’ dutifully serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Their successes meant that by 1918…[Read more]

]]> 0 582c5faa4f1dc21419c9bc6b1ec0a4bd Ian Willis deposited ‘Guardian Angels’, the Red Cross on the wartime homefront in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894764/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:01:05 -0400 Thousands of women rallied to the call of the wife of the Governor-General and formed Red Cross branches across Australia at the outbreak of the First World War. Women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, the King and Country and were encouraged to see themselves as ‘guardian angels’ serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Local Red Cross b…[Read more]

]]> 0 1602d3d8d578295f1e61f7006e402b9e Ian Willis deposited ‘Angels Of Mercy’, The Red Cross On the Homefront During the First World War in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894761/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:00:37 -0400 This blog post examines how the Australian Red Cross mobilized women during World War I as 'Angels of Mercy' and 'ministering angels' to provide aid with a strong moral overtone. The organisation used motherhood imagery to rally support, portraying itself as the 'Greatest Mother in the World'. This approach effectively garnered community backing…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bbe4207d2d02a8f4c38a980eac41410 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Goitres, Worms, and Haemorrhoids: Geographical Localisation of Endemic Diseases in Classical Āyurveda in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890603/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:06:25 -0400 As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

]]> 0 24c31d99011cf9444e0f0684dba48bac Anthony Cerulli deposited “Always Already Theorizing … in the Field, Elsewhere, All at Once” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890336/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:13:00 -0400 Reflecting on his fieldwork experiences between 2003 and 2017 at the same healing center in central Kerala, in this chapter Cerulli addresses continuity and change in medical ethnographers’ awareness of themselves and the people, places, and things they study in the field. He draws on experiences in south India and in the classroom teaching a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 19321d2a1327b5904de75a16c34f3fbc Ian Willis deposited The Role of British Red Cross in NSW Wartime Front: Home Truths in Australian History in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890019/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:00:24 -0400 This blog post details a talk by Dr Ian Willis OAM that challenges myths of WWI at the 2024 Australian Historical Association conference. He examines the Australian military's response to sick and wounded soldiers and the role of the British Red Cross. The conference aims to uncover home truths and dispel historical myths. Dr Willis's research…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c2b29146f482d8a4920ea6cc0469bb7 Ian Willis deposited The convalescent soldier and the British Red Cross on New South Wales wartime home front in the First World War. in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889916/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:30 -0400 The sick and wounded soldier was the central actor in the performance of Red Cross care during the First World War. This paper uses Jeffrey Reznick’s ‘culture of caregiving’ in his book Healing the Nation to examine the role of the British Red Cross in New South Wales in the convalescent stage in the lines of communications in the early month…[Read more]

]]> 0 085434c45a5e5ad45a5ddc789ec61ba9 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889651/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:53 -0400 In the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6d64ae476bff0afadb04926cb34555a Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Doctors Between Civilisation and Wilderness. Medical Geography in Pre-modern South Asia in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889649/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:42 -0400 Usually theories on disease causation and treatment in early Āyurveda focus on the individual patient, his diet, and his lifestyle. There are however certain contexts, in which the locality or origin of factors jeopardising health is significant. Some climatic regions are understood to constitute more unhealthy surroundings in relation to others.…[Read more]

]]> 0 126c86dc5b996732060e7e87d60ccbe5 Pramod Ranjan deposited बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा : व्यावसायिक अनुदानों की राजनीति [“Bill Gates’ visit to India: The politics of business grants.”] in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884587/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:21:52 -0400 प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा यह लेख बिल 'गेट्स की भारत यात्रा' पर दो भागो में लिखा गया है, पहला भाग 22 नवम्बर को और दूसरा भाग 23 नवम्बर 2002 को शिमला से प्रकाशित साध्य दैनिक अखबार भारतेन्दु शिखर में छपा है।

प्रमोद रंजन ने वर्ष 2002 में बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा के अवसर पर “छोटी चाहतों के संगीन निहितार्थ- बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा: व्यवसायिक अनुदानों…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4baa646ffb7287d7e90d25fb938c6ec Pramod Ranjan deposited संक्रामक बीमारियों के भारतीय महासागर में कोरोना कितनी जगह घेरता है? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878449/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:38 -0500 इस लेख में बताया गया है कि किसी प्रकार कोविड 19 अन्य कई बीमारियों की तुलना में बहुत कम घातक था, इसके बावजूद इसका हौव्वा बनाया गया, जिससे अफरातफरी मची और अधिक मौतें हुई। ऐसा इसलिए हुआ क्योंकि विश्व स्वास्थ संगठन ने बीमारियों से होने वाली मौतों का आंकड़ा जमा करने की विधि में कोविड के मामले में बदलाव कर दिया था।

इस लेख में आंकड़ों के साथ बताया…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ff203d2338da884c2782d612c745181 Pramod Ranjan deposited अनूपातहीन भय के कथासूत्र in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878447/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:26 -0500 इस लेख में विस्तार से बताया गया है कि किसी प्रकार कोविड 19 के बारे में अतिशयोक्तिपूर्ण सूचनाएं फैलाईं गईं, जिससे और अधिक मौतें हुई।

The article details how exaggerated information about COVID-19 was somehow deliberately spread, leading to more deaths.

]]> 0 ae059865261723cf222c8253f2c77ff9 Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड-19 का टीका: क्या हम सही सवाल पूछ पा रहे हैं? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878445/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:08 -0500 वर्ष 2021 में कोविड 19 के टीके के संबंध में काफी वाद-विवाद हुआ था।

प्रमोद रंजन इस लेख में बताते हैं कि उस समय कोविड-19 के टीके से संबंधित अनेक भ्रामक प्रश्न जनता के सामने रख दिए गए थे, जिससे चर्चा की दिशा की बदली जा सके।.

इस लेख में कहा गया है कि टीका से संबंधित असली सवाल ये तीन थे। पहला सवाल यह कि, टीकों के निर्माण और वितरण में…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d1154f20d12f544dce5c736950dd594 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874091/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:30 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

]]> 0 0693d3d59a6522a1852a4654f3d998e5 Kit Yee Wong replied to the topic Open access special issue publication in the discussion Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/forum/topic/open-access-special-issue-publication/#post-77947 Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:14:11 -0500 Apologies, the link to the WHOLE special issue (not just to the Introduction) is here:

https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/447/

Kit Yee Wong

]]> 4ccaf03dd2a9955532f55f6a372a9b98 Vitus Angermeier deposited Dharma and the Physicians: Ethic reflections in early Ayurvedic literature (pre-submission draft) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869006/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 03:01:17 -0500 This essay shows that physicians of early Āyurveda adopted a pragmatic approach to the challenges dharma imposed on them. While the concept and its importance is generally accepted in the medical compendia, various passages stress the fact that good health is an indispensable precondition to pursue dharma and other goals of life. In the interests…[Read more]

]]> 0 43a9b4bb13f02fc8c5bdc24d05f14e56 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Vies et renaissances des manuscrits en Asie du Sud” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868292/ Sun, 17 Dec 2023 03:00:16 -0500 article + 6 photographs from the Manuscriptistan Project

]]> 0 a93222414dbbbfc2ad5ce38227c419d9 Vitus Angermeier deposited Causes of Suffering: From the Buddha to Ayurveda (accepted manuscript) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868103/ Fri, 15 Dec 2023 03:00:27 -0500 Abstract: The causes of suffering are a central topic in Buddhism as well as in Ayurveda. The Pāli Canon and other early Buddhist texts like the Milindapañha mention eight specific causes resulting in disease or suffering at several places. In contrast, early Ayurveda, as presented in the Carakasaṃhitā, knows a threefold causal complex of dise…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfc5d8859e61b248a54712c01ea1c3f1 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865829/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 03:00:06 -0500 According to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 76a9c56a72bc8b0ca4c46a28bcc0970c Pruritus Migrans deposited 1963.11.22-12:30 in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865712/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:01:58 -0500 1963.11.22-12:30 * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

]]> 0 2b57c7f028e76bb1f3fd4b833f04edc4 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Crisis in Ancient South Asia – Concepts, Causes, Countermeasures in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862537/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 03:00:24 -0400 Although a plethora of ancient South Asian sources refer to situations that would be considered crises by modern standards, the early Sanskrit vocabulary lacks a word that we could understand as a distinct equivalent of the term “crisis” and its Greek and Latin predecessors. Nevertheless, the descriptions and discussions of personal and col…[Read more]

]]> 0 81b2a56932c8aafed1acfe036216efec Ian Willis deposited Graeme Clark, a world-famous Camden identity in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861154/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:00:13 -0400 This paper provides a background on the life and times of Graeme Clark, a founder of the area of biomedical engineering and the cochlear implant, who grew up in the small town of Camden, NSW.
The life and times of Professor Graeme Clark, the pioneer of the Cochlear Implant, are part of the Camden story. He was a local boy who made good, improved…[Read more]

]]> 0 520cb8a46e24e96dcba84d7117418bb7 Ian Willis deposited Community Workers - Colin and Dorothy Clark in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860262/ Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:00:22 -0400 This paper contributes to the history of small communities in Australia by examining the life and times of a local pharmacist and his wife in a small country town, the business they ran and their contribution to the local community. Colin and Dorothy Clark were local identities and made a significant contribution to the Camden community. Colin as…[Read more]

]]> 0 627cb873cbfa426b7fe9bdbf3c79cb91 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858429/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:06:18 -0400 From antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]

]]> 0 4aa5f25c33f3874e61370e0f319cb53e Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemic Prevention. Precursors of Public Health in Early Āyurveda? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853596/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 02:24:18 -0400 Āyurveda, the predominant medical system in pre-modern South Asia, is by definition a very individualistic tradition of healing, discerning and treating the patients under special consideration of their personal constitution, diet, physical strength, habituation, character and age. Furthermore, the āyurvedic source texts show a strong commitment t…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e166e3b6af61da21f82549f8f6cd0fd Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: The Threats of Adharma and Environmental Disturbances. Understanding Epidemics in Pre-modern South Asia in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850224/ Sun, 25 Jun 2023 02:24:04 -0400 While the colonial and modern history of epidemics in South Asia is well researched, the earlier developments of this subject area have hardly been studied. The project Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South Asia aims to fill part of this gap by exploring the intellectual history of epidemics and similar disasters in South Asia and…[Read more]

]]> 0 f272705a33d8cd7fbb103354df6b28d0 Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849984/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:23:54 -0400 Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774), a Bolognese wax sculptor, overcame humble origins to become one of the most important anatomical artists of the eighteenth century. Working with her husband Giovanni Manzolini (c. 1700–1755), and continuing alone after his death, Morandi created remarkably lifelike and anatomically accurate wax models of the sen…[Read more]

]]> 0 2529e51567c070ceef72382dd1b679a7 Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846897/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:25:36 -0400 In this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2935fe460502c892ae24605282ececa Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846891/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:24:50 -0400 The present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d652fe0aabcd24cea1d62df5500ba29 Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड पश्चात दुनिया और बहुजन कार्यकर्ताओं की ज़िम्मेदारी in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843092/ Mon, 01 May 2023 02:24:14 -0400 इस आलेख में मैंने देखने की कोशिश कि कोविड की रोकथाम के लिए उठाए गए अतिरेकपूर्ण कदमों के कारण दुनिया में क्या स्थितियाँ उत्पन्न होने वाली हैं। विशेष तौर पर सामाजिक वंचना झेल रहे मानव-समुदायों पर इसका क्या प्रभाव पड़ने वाला है। आलेख में भारत के उन शोषित समुदायों को केंद्र में रखा गया है, जो भारतीय आबादी का बहुसंख्यक हिस्सा हैं। इस बहुसंख्या में…[Read more]

]]> 0 29d2c7ab1ad63b103d898222b01d6477 Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड 19: पत्रकारिता से क्यों गायब हैं सवाल in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829792/ Sun, 15 Jan 2023 02:25:09 -0500 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]

]]> 0 c6f2c35cdba8cb4e008a2936755476da Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Epidemiology in the Bhelasaṃhitā: The Chapter on Distinctions According to Land and People in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828207/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 02:24:12 -0500 Presentation in the working group "History of Science in Early South Asia" at https://www.chstm.org/early-south-asia on Dec. 19th 2022.

]]> 0 309cb04831950dc788b1d6ca60b8a64f Pramod Ranjan deposited बजट 2021: मौत, अकाल की आहट और आर्थिक असमानता पर चुप्पी क्यों? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827160/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:25:01 -0500 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]

]]> 0 3f69f2cba73b974bb8670e9063110925 Vitus Angermeier deposited Medication or Magic? Mantras in Early Āyurveda in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824833/ Sat, 03 Dec 2022 02:24:46 -0500 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]

]]> 0 74c8bca89e7c954872ca17c031c18a91 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Medication or Magic? Mantras in Early Āyurveda in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824827/ Sat, 03 Dec 2022 02:24:20 -0500 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]

]]> 0 3566e101eda6e6a98c32f64ed9891070 Pramod Ranjan deposited COVID-19, science and responsibility of the intellectuals in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823841/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 02:24:10 -0500 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]

]]> 0 9c3b5089139824cadedd73ff72a7ab05 Pramod Ranjan deposited महामारी के दौर में डॉक्टरों की भूमिका, सीमाएं और प्रोटोकॉल के कुछ सवाल in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823740/ Thu, 24 Nov 2022 02:23:51 -0500 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]

]]> 0 0c0afac82c6ac18e14a55a92001fe264 Pramod Ranjan deposited Covid-19: Role and limitations of doctors and treatment protocols in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823738/ Thu, 24 Nov 2022 02:23:38 -0500 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]

]]> 0 3ec2cb8237fe38cbd6224c7465b6c2c9 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Combining Atomism with Galenic Medicine: The Physiological Theory of Isaac Beeckman (1616-1627) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823446/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 02:24:07 -0500 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]

]]> 0 2b65ffc6925317cc95eda1863d7ba185 Ian Willis deposited Red Cross humanitarianism and female volunteers in Australia in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819618/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 02:24:02 -0400 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.

]]> 0 55c31fefd720c7e8d80284a246a6af1d Kit Yee Wong started the topic Two open access medical humanities articles available for download in the discussion Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/forum/topic/two-open-access-medical-humanities-articles-available-for-download/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:46:56 -0400 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/

 

AND

 

Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s Degeneration and Émile Zola’s La Débâcle…[Read more]

]]> 1cc5464dae345defd63fdea6d27d3d8e 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815905/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:27:17 -0400 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]

]]> 0 c5d70539026ea092bc6ebbcd82903df9 Kit Yee Wong deposited Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s 'Degeneration' and Émile Zola’s 'La Débâcle’ in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815901/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:26:30 -0400 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]

]]> 0 8b22cc7637d4c6513203482b6c0bbf24 Ernesto Priego started the topic Deadline Extended for the Conjuring a New Normal Special Collection [15/01/2023] in the discussion Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/forum/topic/deadline-extended-for-the-conjuring-a-new-normal-special-collection-15-01-2023-2/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:21:51 -0400 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]

]]> c0e5584e25da4217e43e0e63d1b17d2b Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemien im vormodernen Südasien? Kollektives Leid durch Umwelteinflüsse und Adharma in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794583/ Sun, 18 Sep 2022 02:23:50 -0400 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]

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