Medical Humanities

The medical humanities have long been considered a valuable part of physician education. Yet, its standard inclusion in undergraduate medical education has been elusive. In the 1960's leaders in medical education began formal meetings with humanists to discuss concerns that medi…

Addiction is commonly understood as a biomedical problem. Most medical practitioners agree that addiction is a brain disease, rather than a moral failing or a statement about the addict’s character. This disease designation represents an important ethical move, directing more re…

This dissertation explores the intersections of medicine and religion through a rhetorical historiography of nineteenth century birth medicine in the United States. It asks: How did religious sensibilities motivate and shape rhetoric in response to human suffering in the field o…

The present thesis examines ideological and discursive constructions of physiological, neurological and psychological diseases in women writers' fiction in Turkish in relation to the nation-building project of Turkey in the twentieth century. While the Turkish nationbuilding pro…

Dementia

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"Dementia represents a major public health challenge for the world with over 100 million people likely to be affected by 2050. A large body of professionals is active in diagnosing, treating, and caring for people with dementia, and research is expanding. Many of these specialis…

Objectivity is a valued principle in western allopathic medicine, and for good reason: it has been very effective in saving lives and improving quality of life since the nineteenth century. In recent years, however, there have been many visible accounts in social and mass media …

In early modern Europe, love was not a feeling, but a physiological change in the body. In its extreme, love was lovesickness, a deadly disease. Love makes the patient a desiring subject who seeks to author his own experience. The disease raises the stakes: if he cannot fulfill …