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    (1 other version)Toward humanistic healthcare through dystopian visions: Sally Wiener Grotta’s “One Widow’s Healing”.Meeyoung Kang - 2025 - Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 20 (1):1-10.
    Background 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 health, disease, and humanity from a biocultural perspective. Essentially, they emphasize structural inequalities in modern medicine. Methods This study analyzes Sally Wiener Grotta’s “One Widow’s Healing” from the perspective of critical medical humanities. In line with this critical perspective, this study highlights the human alienation and oppression caused by biopower and technology-driven (...)
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  2. The collective experience of moral distress: a qualitative analysis of perspectives of frontline health workers during COVID-19.Sophie Lewis, Karen Willis & Natasha Smallwood - 2025 - Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 20 (1):1-11.
    Background 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 ensuing distress personally and collectively experienced by healthcare workers while caring for patients during the pandemic. Methods Data are drawn from free-text responses from a cross-sectional national online survey of Australian healthcare workers about the patient care challenges they faced. Results Three themes were derived from qualitative content analysis (...)
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    (1 other version)Gottfried Benn´s “brains” novella from 1916: implications for the philosophy of mind.Gunter Wolf - 2025 - Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 20 (1):1-6.
    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, performing many autopsies. Later in life, Benn ran his own practice to treat skin and venereal diseases in Berlin for many years. Benn is not well-known in English-speaking countries and only a few of his poems have been translated into English so far. One possible reason for this may have been his initial enthusiasm for (...)
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