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This commentary is a reflection, through a health policy and systems lens, on the medically pluralistic workforce, particularly in low- and middle-income countries that have and utilise numerous systems of med...
Intensive care provision to very old patients is rapidly growing owing to demographic changes and increasing treatment intensity. However, intensive care carries only questionable benefit for the oldest patien...
Times of pandemics usually witness a remarkable surge of interest among various poets who, in response to the impending threats and anxiety brought about by the uninvited guest, provide multiple ways of portra...
Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007) narrates the story of nineteen-year-old Animal, a severely disabled survivor of a gas leak in Khaufpur, a fictionalized version of post-1984 Bhopal. The novel explores disabil...
Scientific authorship is undergoing a subtle but profound transformation. With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), the boundary between human contribution and machine assistance is increasingl...
This paper explores how writing and publishing can contribute to recovery after psychosis, focusing on lived experience. Collaborating with DW, whose creative work engages existential and philosophical questio...
This article explores the clinical encounter not merely as a site for technical intervention or diagnostic reasoning, but as a complex event where epistemology and ethics converge. Challenging the reduction of...
This paper aims to analyze the representation of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Zoulfa Katouh’s novel, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow (2022). Katouh, a Canadian-Syrian author who specializes in drug sc...
In recent years, the renewal of soul-centred shamanic soul retrieval theories has provided various theoretical interpretations of the shamanic soul retrieval phenomenon and has exacerbated the “explanatory gap...
As China's population ages, the lack of resources for elder care and the incapacity of adult children to care for their aging parents in the "4–2-1" family structure have emerged as major concerns. A potential...
In Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life, Albert Borgman puts forth the “device paradigm” as characteristic of the way we interact with the world in our technological society. He argues that devices, ...
The Almajiri system, historically rooted in Northern Nigeria's precolonial Islamic scholarship, has devolved into a complex humanitarian crisis. Once a revered educational tradition, the system is now associat...
The concept of medical futility has exposed the medical staff to many complicated conflicts. Through identifying some of these conflicts, it will be possible to have control over such situations and make plans...
Many studies have used ideas from phenomenological philosophy to explore health and health care, yet topics related to public health have often been overlooked. We argue that at least one crucial issue in publ...
This study explored the logical underpinnings of medical reasoning, focusing on the integration of abduction, deduction, and induction within clinical decision-making. It aimed to highlight the role of abducti...
Medical professionals have been portrayed as hard-working and serious individuals in most Egyptian dramas. Recent Egyptian TV series have portrayed medical service providers, highlighting different aspects of ...
Disability/illness is an enigma that we experience but whose implications we have not fully fathomed. One's sense of self is impacted by disability/ illness. Autopathographies gave people with disability/ chro...
Euthanasia is a polarizing topic in healthcare, particularly in Iran, where Islamic principles emphasizing the sanctity of life shape ethical perspectives. Understanding the attitudes of Iranian healthcare pro...
The medical care provided by the physician is an important part of the hospital scene and the action of caring. Assessments of the physician-patient meeting are based on welcome and the physician’s ability to ...
As a major public health event, the pandemic has been widely discussed across various academic disciplines. In the field of humanities, most pandemic-related studies use introspective methods such as descripti...
This theoretical paper aims to explore empathy in the context of technologically mediated patient-provider communication, specifically within the context of video- and telehealth consultations. Over the past f...
To explore the body of knowledge available regarding the moral distress of healthcare professionals in long-term care settings, focusing on influencing factors and strategies to cope with moral distress.
Within a rapidly evolving digital age in which social media plays a key role, the number of aesthetic medicine procedures performed globally is increasing.
The exploration into the origin of human spirituality has always been a hot spot with many unsolved questions in the philosophy of mind, and issues concerning mental illness and its comorbidities are still unc...
The initial inquiry into the concept revealed its usage as a boundary object and how this facilitated its interdisciplinary utilization. The same feature enabled the shift to literature within other discipline...
Information transparency in healthcare systems is critical for ensuring public trust, enhancing service quality, and reducing costs. However, many countries face significant challenges concerning information o...
This article presents a bioethical analysis of the use of Methylphenidate and Atomoxetine, exploring their roles as cognitive enhancers and therapeutic agents for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has left a devastating global toll. As such, there is a strong impetus to prevent future global pandemics. Ethical considerations are an integral element of pan...
Gottfried Benn (1886–1956) was a major 20th-century German physician-poet and essayist. He successfully completed his medical studies and worked across several hospitals and disciplines, including pathology, p...
Critical medical humanities critique the traditional medical humanities’ focus on producing humane doctors, arguing that it plays only a supplementary role in medical education, and advocate for understanding ...
Moral distress is reported to be a critical force contributing to intensifying rates of anxiety, depression and burnout experienced by healthcare workers. In this paper, we examine the moral dilemmas and ensui...
Research involves the systematic collection and analysis of data to enhance understanding of a particular phenomenon. Participation in medical research is crucial for advancing healthcare practices. However, t...
This paper draws on qualitative research using focus groups involving 38 general practitioners (GPs). It explores their attitudes and feelings about (over-)medicalisation. Our main findings were that GPs had a...
Gothic literature—a genre brimming with madness, supernaturalism, and psychological terror—offers innumerable case studies potentially representing how psychiatric patients perceive their treatment from health...
Mental healthcare research increasingly focuses the needs of trans people and, in doing so, acknowledges knowledge and epistemic resources developed in trans communities. In this article, we aim to raise aware...
Bioethics increasingly recognizes the impact of discriminatory practices based on social categories such as race, gender, sexual orientation or ability on clinical practice. Accordingly, major bioethics associ...
Healthcare professionals often face ethical conflicts and challenges related to decision-making that have necessitated consideration of the use of conscientious objection (CO). No current guidelines exist with...
Medicine is faced with a number of intractable modern challenges that can be understood in terms of hyper-intellectualization; a compassion crisis, burnout, dehumanization, and lost meaning. These challenges h...
Teamwork in emergency medical services is a very important factor in efforts to improve patient safety. The potential differences of staff gender on communication, patient safety, and teamwork were omitted. Th...
Informed consent is one of the key principles of conducting research involving humans. When research participants give consent, they perform an act in which they utter, write or otherwise provide an authorisat...
This article addresses some critical aspects of the relationship between aesthetic medicine (AM) and ethics and proposes a possible deontological ethical line to pursue based on current practices. The role of ...
In 1926, Fritz Jahr described bio-ethics (German: bio-ethik) as “the assumption of moral obligations not only towards humans, but towards all forms of life.” Jahr summarized his philosophy by declaring, “Respe...
The American Association of Medical Colleges has called for incorporation of the health humanities into medical education, and many medical schools now offer formal programs or content in this field. However, ...
The merits and drawbacks of moral relevance models of addiction have predominantly been discussed theoretically, without empirical evidence of these potential effects. This study develops and evaluates a novel...
The concept of ‘successful ageing’ has been a prominent focus within the field of gerontology for several decades. However, despite the widespread attention paid to this concept, its intersectional implication...
Inequities shape the everyday experiences and life chances of individuals at the margins of societies and are often associated with lower health and particular challenges in accessing quality treatment and sup...
This study used a scenario- and discussion-based approach to teach preclinical medical students the socio-philosophical aspects of psychiatry and qualitatively evaluated the learning outcomes in a medical huma...
Neuroscientific approaches have historically triggered changes in the conception of creativity and artistic experience, which can be revealed by noting the intersection of these fields of study in terms of var...
We need to preserve the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic in caring for the mental health of clinicians, of shared experiences, interdependence, team cohesion and vulnerability, among others. We need reform in ...
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