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Like Any Other Woman The Lived Experience of Gynaecological Cancer
Like Any Other Woman speaks to the suffering that cancer causes, and to the profound human experience of renegotiating the physical and emotional balance between sickness and health when that balance is tipped by the onset of disease. A profound and…
Innovative Medicine: Basic Research and Development
molecular medicine; immunology; cell biology
High Density Lipoproteins: From Biological Understanding to Clinical Exploitation
Pharmacology/Toxicology; Molecular Medicine; Human Physiology; Immunology; Cell Biology
Global Health Collaboration: Challenges and Lessons
global health collaboration; global health education; urban health; multiple morbidities; global health research; international university partnerships; sustainability; public health; multi-morbidity; transcultural; interdisciplinary and…
Chapter 23 Voices and Visions: Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval Writing
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and…
Chapter 21 Medical privacy and big data A further reason in favour of public universal healthcare coverage
This This chapter aims to explore the challenge that big data brings to medical privacy. Section I offers a brief overview of the role of privacy in medical settings. I define define privacy as having one’s personal information and one’s personal…
Chapter 20 Man's dark Interior: Surrealism, Viscera and the Anatomical Imaginary
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and…
Chapter 16 Breathing and Breathlessness in Clinic and Culture: Using Critical Medical Humanities to Bridge an Epistemic Gap
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and…
Chapter 13 The value of the imagined biological in policy and society
Attending the World Economic Forum this past week, I was struck by two trends. The first was that brain research has emerged as a hot topic. Not only was brain science or brain health a new theme at the meeting, research on the brain emerged in…
Chapter 10 The Territory of Medical Research: Experimentation in Africa's Smallest State
In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with…