MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'humanities'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:22 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5107618&cid=t_164443_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2011%2F08%2F08%2Fexploring-illness-from-a-medical-humanities-point-of-view%2F Buffer As the authors state: a lot of energy and time is allocated during medical education on technical procedures and neurbiological explanatory theories. Empathy and professionalism some of the important qualities of a good doctor also according to the CanMEDS framework are threatened to be “up-regulated through education” comparable to serotonergic receptors in the limbic system. Before medical students undergo a neurobiological training for professionalism medical humanities could help in the evaluation of the patients’ personal experience of the disease and therapy. Moreover, research shows a decline in empathy during medical education and residents’ training. focus should form the core of a good doctor-patient relationship in which the doctor has empathic ski... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5107618 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 06:01:40 +0100 5107618 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028388&cid=t_164443_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F07%2F10%2Fcare-of-self-and-keeping-track-of-ones-identity%2F A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize winner Ragnar Granit’s essay on the distinction between discovery and understanding as two separate modes of scientific work, which, he suggested, are differentially distributed throughout a scientist’s life-course — young researchers are impatient to discover something new, whereas older scientists are more interested in getting insight, he suggested. Even more interesting, in my view, is Granit’s thoughts about how researchers ‘keep track’ and ‘take care’ of their identity in order to achieve understanding and insight: By “keeping track of one’s identity” I mean cultivating the talents of listening to the workings of one’s own mind, separat... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028388 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:25:45 +0100 5028388 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952930&cid=t_164443_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F06%2F18%2Fimpatient-discovery-vs-mature-understanding-revisiting-ragnar-granits-view-of-the-goal-of-scientific-work%2F Prompted by a recent guest blog post on the Scientific American site, I’ve just revisited an almost 40 year old essay titled “Discovery and understanding” by the Finland-Swedish neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize Winner Ragnar Granit. Growing out of a talk (see video here) that Granit gave at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 1972, the essay was published in the Annual Review of Physiology later the same year. I remember dimly having read it when I was a PhD student a few years after it was published, but apparently I didn’t really appreciate it then — and didn’t understand the deeper significance of the message either. But now I think I’ve got it. And it’s quite interesting for discussions about the culture of sc... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952930 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:22:49 +0100 4952930 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734064&cid=t_164443_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F1TK6Wboi4Xo%2F By Tad DeHavenWhat do these federal agencies and programs have in common? Agricultural Research Service, Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, Rural Development programs, Women, Infants & Children, Foreign Agricultural Service, National Institute of Standards & Technology, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Economic Development Administration, National Telecommunications & Information Administration, Small Business Administration, State Department foreign aid, Fund for African Development, International Development assistance, Economic Support Fund, Peacekeeping Operations, Trade Development Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Reclamation, National Forest System, Appalach... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734064 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:59:09 +0100 4734064 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4489715&cid=t_164443_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F02%2F16%2Fa-manifesto-for-creating-science-technology-and-medicine-exhibitions%2F Two weeks ago I mentioned that the Museums Journal had published Ken Arnolds and my Dogme 95-style manifesto for creating science, technology and medicine exhibitions, first presented last September at a conference organised by Medical Museion in Copenhagen. We have now received the journal’s permission to publish the full version of the manifesto. Enjoy and/or criticize! Just over 15 years ago, Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg spearheaded Dogme 95, a manifesto to purify the art of film-making. The aim was to engage audiences more profoundly and make sure they weren’t distracted by over-production. The Dogme manifesto ruled out special effects, post-production changes and other tricks in order to focus on the story and the performances. Since then, writer... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4489715 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:43:31 +0100 4489715 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4119029&cid=t_164443_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F10%2F29%2Fthe-patient-perspective-in-collecting%2F At last month’s conference, Jan-Eric Olsén talked about the tendency in contemporary medicine and society in general to constantly monitor our own health. Jan-Eric pointed to the fact that there is a fine line between monitoring and surveillance, and that patients should be aware of that before uncritically embracing these new technologies. Read Jan-Eric’s full abstract here. In the discussion afterwards it was pointed out that some patients can actually gain personal freedom from a smart textile t-shirt taking over the constant monitoring of their vital signs. One person said that she wouldn’t have been able to attend the conference, if it hadn’t been for these very technologies helping her monitor her diabetic child over a great distance. On the other hand, many of these produc... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4119029 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:11:18 +0100 4119029 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4098027&cid=t_164443_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F10%2F22%2Fbio-engineering-in-museums%2F Most medical museums live in the safe past. Exhibitions rooms are filled with beautiful 19th and 20th century medical instruments and scary pathological body parts in formaldehyde. The present and the future body and its instruments are hardly visible in medical museums. How, for example, shall medical museums handle the fusion of bodies and instruments made possible by bio-engineering and human enhancement: Living bacteria with artificial DNA, supercomputers designed to function like a real human brain or robots showing human-like emotions. Biology is increasingly engineered in much the same way as technology, while technology is becoming more and more life-like. These two engineering trends intensify current debates about the desirability and acceptability of genetic engineering and hu... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4098027 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:48:21 +0100 4098027 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3902937&cid=t_164443_107_f&fid=35026&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheTreeOfLife%2F%7E3%2FyWrqFhSDHFY%2Finteresting-take-on-peer-review.html I assume many supporters of open science may have seen this already but if not it is worth a look.  The New York Times had an interesting article on Monday by Patricia Cohen: For Scholars, Web Changes Sacred Rite of Peer Review. The article starts off with a familiar refrain For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of credentialed scholarly peers has been a cornerstone of academic culture since at least the mid-20th century.It follows with a very important discussion focusing on how the web can transform scholarly publishing.  For example: ... scholars have begun to challenge the monopoly that peer review has on admission to career-making journals and, as a con... The Tree of Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3902937 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:58:21 +0100 3902937 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3750083&cid=t_164443_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F07%2F13%2Fconversations-between-surgery-pathology-the-humanities-the-arts-impressions-of-the-association-for-medical-humanities-conference-2010%2F Founded in 2002, the Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) aims to promote, within the UK and the Republic of Ireland, the medical humanities in education, healthcare and research. It has links with the BMJ journal Medical Humanities and has organized annual academic conferences since 2003. Courses on Medical Humanities are increasing in the UK and can be found at University College London, Durham University, King’s College London, University of Aberdeen, University of Leicester, University of Glasgow, University of Bristol, Birkbeck College University of London, and University of Swansea. On Monday 5th July the AMH 2010 conference titled ‘Humanities at the Cutting Edge: Conversations between surgery, pathology, the humanities & the arts’ opened in Truro, Cornwall, wit... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3750083 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:10:28 +0100 3750083 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3714232&cid=t_164443_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F06%2F30%2Fmedical-history-and-the-medical-humanities-between-two-reductionisms%2F It’s hard to escape the impression that the humanities (including medical history, medical humanities, etc.) are living a wobbly existence, balancing on a fine line over the two abysses of social reductionism and biological reductionism. Are patients and their diseases social constructions or bags of biochemical reactions? Do these reductionist trends have any room left for the kind of books reviewed in the TLS ? A forthcoming conference at the University of Copenhagen 16-17 September on ‘The Humanities Between Constructivism and Biologism’ will “explore the options for a coherent conception of Man as neither a mere biological species, nor a mere social construction. It is a conception of Man as both a producer and a product of history and culture, and thus as a s... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3714232 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:34:24 +0100 3714232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3480801&cid=t_164443_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F04%2F18%2Fwant-to-renew-wellcome-librarys-outreach-activities-web-presence-etc%2F The Wellcome Library is announcing a vacancy as Head of Discovery and Engagement. The successful applicant is supposed to play a pivotal role in making the Library’s outstanding collections accessible, help revolutionise the Library’s web presence and reading-room services, and lead its outreach, communication and marketing activities. For more info, see here. Closing date is 10 May. (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3480801 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:45:14 +0100 3480801 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3398971&cid=t_164443_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F03%2F24%2Fillness-in-context-textual-interpretations-of-illness%2F On several occasions we have had the pleasure to organise events together with Scandinavian literary scholars Frederik Tygstrup (Copenhagen) and Knut Stene-Johansen (Oslo); for example, Frederik spoke at the opening of our temporary exhibition ‘The Face of Disease’ (Sygdommens Ansigt) in 2006, and Knut sat on the committee that evaluated Adam Bencard’s PhD-thesis in February 2008 (and I’ve been giving a seminar on ‘presence effects in contemporary biomedicine’ in Oslo). Knut and Frederik organised a Nordic research network called Infectio, which has resulted in a couple of meetings and now also an anthology titled ‘Illness in Context’ on Rodopi, which focuses on the literary perspectives of medicine and illness: The reading practices highligh... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3398971 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:00:19 +0100 3398971 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2927589&cid=t_164443_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F10%2F25%2Funderstanding-the-differences-between-science-and-humanities-papers%2F In order to help students better understand the differences between writing a paper for an English or humanities class and writing a paper for a science course, I have finished up a series of articles in the Academic Writing section on Suite 101. The series takes a look at the differences between science and humanities papers read “Science and Humanities Papers the Differences.” It also offers students help on writing scientific papers in “How to Write a Scientific Research Paper” as well as explaining the different required sections in “Identifying Parts of a Scientific Research Paper.” Finally the different types of styles used in formatting science and humanities papers are reviewed in  MLA, APA or URM? Different Research Paper Styles. All of the art... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2927589 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:12:43 +0100 2927589 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1149735&cid=t_164443_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F216414600%2F Charlie pulled two books out of the book shelf. Saying “Blue ocean!” he pointed to a patch of blue on the cover of The Littlest Angel. Saying “green bed!” he pointed to a pink cloud that, I suppose, could be considered to have sort of a chaise lounge shape. I pointed to each letter of “angel” and he read them out: “It says ‘angel’” I said. “A,” said Charlie; I was pointing, I realized, at the “a.” I ran my finger under the entire word: “Angel!” The other book was an old Barney book about “what will you do when you grow up?”. I pointed to the Barney logo at the top (the purple dinosaur’s name in a purple oval with a green oval behind) and asked “What does it say?” &#... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1149735 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:57:45 +0100 1149735