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| Title |
‘The Medical’ and ‘Health’ in a Critical Medical Humanities
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Medical Humanities, December 2014
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10912-014-9314-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sarah Atkinson, Bethan Evans, Angela Woods, Robin Kearns |
| Abstract |
As befits an emerging field of enquiry, there is on-going discussion about the scope, role and future of the medical humanities. One relatively recent contribution to this debate proposes a differentiation of the field into two distinct terrains, 'medical humanities' and 'health humanities,' and calls for a supersession of the former by the latter. In this paper, we revisit the conceptual underpinnings for a distinction between 'the medical' and 'health' by looking at the history of an analogous debate between 'medical geography' and 'the geographies of health' that has, over the last few years, witnessed a re-blurring of the distinction. Highlighting the value of this debate within the social sciences for the future development of the medical humanities, we call for scholars to take seriously the challenges of critical and cultural theory, community-based arts and health, and the counter-cultural creative practices and strategies of activist movements in order to meet the new research challenges and fulfill the radical potential of a critical medical humanities. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 26 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 10 | 38% |
| United States | 4 | 15% |
| Ireland | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 9 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 31% |
| Scientists | 2 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 8% |
| Unknown | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 76 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 76 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 9% |
| Researcher | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 15 | 20% |
| Unknown | 18 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities | 20 | 26% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 20% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 1% |
| Sports and Recreations | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 21 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 October 2018.
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