Blog by Rebecca Zickerman When doctors fail to communicate effectively with their patients, quality of care is impacted; on the patient side, communication barriers such as language, health li...
Blog by Tina Chai When asked my age, I almost always want to say sixteen before stopping myself to say twenty-four. I don’t feel twenty-four. At most, I’m twenty-three and three-fourths—...
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2024/05/09/acting-my-age/
Eds. Whitney Wood, Heather Love, Jerika Sanderson, and Karen Weingarten From the early 1800s through the twenty-first century, pregnancy, childbirth, and maternal experiences have been constructe...
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2024/05/08/making-modern-maternity/
Blog by Philippa Nicole Barr We have all heard the provocative discussions about turning protein-rich insects into a viable, global food source for humans and animals.1 Yet the idea of eating the...
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2024/05/07/does-disgust-protect-us-from-pathogens/
Review of ‘A Tie of a Womb’ (Selat Rahem)’ TV series, directed by Tamer Nady, Egypt, 2024, available on Shahid MBC in Arabic with English subtitles Review by Khalid Ali, Film and Media Corr...
Article Summary by Carmen Thong and Alexis Doyle Using the word ‘vagina’ to describe the vulva would be the same as using the word ‘throat’ to describe the mouth; yet, the word ‘vagina�...
Article Summary by Katherine Ward Moral bioenhancement is the use of biomedical technologies to alter the moral characteristics of people; it’s the attempt to make people more moral through med...
Article Summary by Rupinder Legha Racism is a centuries-old public health crisis that has devastated countless lives. Up until recently, it did not garner much attention in healthcare. The worldw...
Article Summary by Fred Spence Why are so many more Glaswegians dying, and younger, compared to English cities with almost identical deprivation levels? This was a hot topic in Scottish public he...
Article Summary by Alice Chesterfield and Jordan Harvey Despite much controversy, the functional-organic distinction attempts to distinguish symptoms, signs, and syndromes that can be explained b...