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

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

h-index / Ranks: 9739 34

SJR / Ranks: 9838 436

CiteScore / Ranks: 9425 2.60

Recent Articles

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Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater's

Sanyal S, Karah H

Med Humanit . 2025 Feb; PMID: 39929716

This paper examines Lauren Slater's memoir, , to understand the role of language in reimagining the notion of recovery. Written from the standpoint of a consumer of antidepressant drugs, underlines...

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Finland's New Children's Hospital and resurgent charity in a Nordic post-welfare state

Alava H, Lindroos J, Pihlman A

Med Humanit . 2025 Feb; PMID: 39922701

Finland's New Children's Hospital (NCH) opened in 2018 after a high-profile charity campaign. Through an analysis of the campaign, we illustrate how debates about children's hospitals and charities are simultaneously...

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On the consequences of childbirth: obstetrics/gynaecology, comparative anatomy and racial theories in 19th century France and Brazil

Machado M

Med Humanit . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39863416

The following paper is centred on an analysis of comparative studies of the human pelvis developed over the 19th century by mostly French natural scientists, physical anthropologists, students of the...

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'God knows why these Sanghaalis are so rabidly against C-section!': spectre of medical coloniality haunts doctor-patient relationship in Guruprasad Kaginele's (2020)

Karmakar M

Med Humanit . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39837607

Through the lens of Guruprasad Kaginele's novel , the issues of intolerance and distrust that exist in American rural hospitals-where the Indian immigrant doctors fail to understand the inhibitions and...

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Cultural assumptions and the good death: rethinking global frameworks

Zaman S

Med Humanit . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39837606

The concept of a 'good death' remains debated, with research largely focused on the Global North, leaving gaps in understanding its relevance to the Global South. While the concept of...

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Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa

Casoojee A, Khoza-Shangase K, Kanji A

Med Humanit . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39837605

Family-centred intervention optimises the development of communication abilities and academic outcomes in children with hearing loss. Cognisance of family values, respect for family differences and adaptations to cultural and linguistic...

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'Captivating voices': evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders

Brandt G, Bartel H, Paslakis G

Med Humanit . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39837604

This project aimed to evaluate the acceptance of a short, animated video addressing excessive exercise within the context of eating disorder (ED) behaviours among diverse target groups, assess its impact...

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Impossible motherhood: a health humanities reading of two monologues for women

Sidi L

Med Humanit . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39837603

Separated by a gap of 27 years, Anna Reynold's (1992) and Gary Owen's (2015) offer, on the surface, dramaturgically similar critiques of the impact of poverty on motherhood. Both plays...

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Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field

Dymock A, Dubus Z

Med Humanit . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39762028

In this article we initiate a conversation between scientific and humanities-oriented studies of sexuality and psychedelics. Drawing on three recent studies which indicate a positive connection between the use of...

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'I'm not ok, we are not ok': an exploration into the embodied precarity experienced by disabled people and their family members living in rural South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

Neille J

Med Humanit . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39762027

Research suggests that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on disabled people was magnified compared with the impact on non-disabled people; however, little is known about the experiences of disabled...