Medical Humanities
Overview
Medical Humanities is a scientific journal, published since 2000 in English. The journal's country of origin is United States and its primary focus area is medical ethics.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Med Humanit
Start
2000
End
Continuing
Frequency
Semiannual
p-ISSN
1468-215X
e-ISSN
1473-4265
Country
United States
Language
English
Specialty
Medical Ethics
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 9739
34
SJR / Ranks: 9838
436
CiteScore / Ranks: 9425
2.60
Recent Articles
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Liu R, Lundin S, Eleonorasdotter E
Med Humanit
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40081966
This article examines how different layers of health-related uncertainties emerge and intersect in an algorithmic society. We aim to understand how people's self-care practices co-evolve with digitalised health systems. Sweden...
2.
Karodia H, MacGregor W, Raphael D
Med Humanit
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40081965
Bertolt Brecht's 1938 poem 'A Worker's Speech to a Doctor' has been used by health educators to direct attention to the health-threatening effects of adverse living and working conditions. However,...
3.
Ramsey S
Med Humanit
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40050023
This work explores recent industrial action by doctors in the British National Health Service (NHS) through a psychoanalytic lens, exploring psychosocial context and the role of unconscious phantasy. Doctor strikes...
4.
Rusca R
Med Humanit
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 40015953
The present study aims at establishing if anything has been learnt from 140 years of modern architecture when it comes to designing for inpatient mental health and to identifying how...
5.
Kogel J, Cook P, Brown N, Clare A, Glick M, Hansson K, et al.
Med Humanit
. 2025 Feb;
51(1):180-184.
PMID: 39993842
The development of replacing human organs with those from genetically modified pigs holds immense potential for alleviating the shortage of organs necessary for patients in need of transplants. This medical...
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Bound Alberti F, Weins D, Weins A
Med Humanit
. 2025 Feb;
51(1):154-160.
PMID: 39993841
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...
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Armour E, MacPherson M, Mack C, van Manen M
Med Humanit
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39961659
There is a narrative told among healthcare providers that the public stories of trisomy 18 do not reflect the experiences of the many families navigating this diagnosis. This is in...
9.
Low K, Petretti S, Lowry C, Shaharuddin M
Med Humanit
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39956622
This article shares the learning from our project, (PPPP), which started in 2022 in partnership with Positively UK, formerly known as Positively Women, a UK HIV support and advocacy organisation....
10.
Jacob M
Med Humanit
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39933916
The article revisits the story of the watch of Sarah Jacob and her miraculous fasting, which was showcased as a lucrative spectacle in her family home in Wales, followed by...