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Hippocrates now : the \father of medicine\ in the internet age
\"We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the 'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and the ancient biographical traditions of his life are not only late, but also written for their own promotional purposes. Yet Hippocrates features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine -- and the physician himself -- should be. In both orthodox and alternative medicine, he continues to be a model to be emulated. This book will challenge widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about the history of medicine in ancient Greece and beyond) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Why do we continue to use Hippocrates, and how are new myths constructed around his name? How do news stories and the internet contribute to our picture of him? And what can this tell us about wider popular engagements with the classical world today, in memes, 'quotes' and online?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Revised Hippocratic Oath for the Era of Digital Health
Physicians have been taking the Hippocratic Oath for centuries. The Oath contains a set of ethical rules designed to guide physicians through their profession; it articulates a set of true north principles that govern the practice of medicine. The Hippocratic Oath has undergone several revisions, most notably in 1948 by the World Medical Association. However, in an era of rapid change in medicine, we believe it is time to update the Oath with modest but meaningful additions so that it optimally reflects 21st century health care. The rise of digital health has dramatically changed the practice of medicine in a way that could not have been easily predicted at the time Hippocrates outlined his ethical principles of medicine. Digital health is a broad term that encompasses use of digital devices and platforms, including electronic health records, patient-provider portals, mobile health apps, wearable biosensors, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and medical extended reality, to improve the process and outcomes of health care delivery. These technologies have driven a cultural transformation in the delivery of care. We offer modest suggestions to help prompt discussion and contemplation about the current Oath and its relevancy to our changing times. Our suggestions are not meant to be a definitive set of final recommendations. Rather, we propose new text that bodies such as the World Medical Association might consider integrating into an updated Oath, just as previous changes were adopted to ensure the Oath remains relevant and impactful for all physicians and their patients.
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Life and Family Travel in the Time of COVID-19: Pandemic in England 2020
This reports an exploratory attempt at a real–time account of COVID’s physical and social impacts on society, particularly family behavior, as the pandemic spread through England during 2020. Particular focus is on its effects on movement, travel and social relations and the contradictions for many in the way these were personally experienced, compared with media representations of national life during COVID. The study started with a sketch of historical pandemics in order to situate COVID contextually in relation to pandemics of the past. This was followed by a year-long, mixed-methodology, qualitative survey combining: diary observations, participant observation, unobtrusive observation, interviews, and oral reports by, and from, observer-informants at different locations in England. The results are reported in tabular form as 10 tracked outcomes, alongside each of which are notes, suggesting how actions might be derived as responsive measures to them in managing future pandemics.
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Sixth-Century Medical Recipe Uncovered in Saint Catherine's Monastery
In a ceremony held at his ministry's headquarters, Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany announced the discovery of a very important medical manuscript uncovered by the monks of Saint Catherine's Monastery in South Sinai during restoration works carried out in the monastery's library. The ceremony was attended by Greek Minister of Digital Policy, Telecommunications, and Media, Nikos Pappas; the archbishop of Saint Catherine's Monastery; Egyptian Cultural Minister, Helmy El-Namnam; Egyptian Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Yasser El-Kadi; Egyptian Minister of Tourism, Yehia Rashid; and South Sinai Governor, Major General Khalid Fouda.
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Self-Health: The Politics of Care in American Literature, 1793-1873
Self-Health examines the cultural politics of health in the United States in the decades prior to the professionalization of medicine, the microbiological revolution, and the development of federal public health policy. Arguing that early republican and antebellum health discourses located the burden of care not with the state, but with the embodied subject, it traces the ways in which American health was rendered “public” at moments of biopolitical crisis: periods of populational emergency during which individuals’ relations and obligations to the life of the social body were tried and defined. Each chapter considers a nineteenth-century etiological or epidemiological concept—predisposition, miasmatic transmission, racialized immunity, and hereditary degeneration—as an organizing principle that shaped laypeople’s understandings of agency, risk, and responsibility. Specifically, analyzing theories of disease transmission and prevention as they were presented for public consumption in print media—newspapers, periodicals, domestic medical manuals, and novels—Self-Health illustrates the ways in which self-care was understood not only as a civic responsibility, but as a fundamental prerequisite for citizenship. In so doing, it investigates the hygienic investments of nineteenth-century fiction, exploring how American authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Wells Brown, Hannah Crafts, and Louisa May Alcott engaged with contemporary discourses of health and hygiene in a range of narrative genres, including the Gothic, the romance, the abolitionist novel, and the sentimental novel. Intervening in American literary history, the history of medicine, and the health humanities, Self-Health seeks to illuminate the historical development of the politics, praxes, and ethics of care that continue to inform American health ideologies in our own historical moment.
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The Medical Symptom
The semiotic approach, as proposed here, can restore to the conception of the symptoms its transrational, pierational, and irrational dimensions and put the various strands of its rational treatment (biomedical, sociological, psychological) on the common denominator of the sign. [...]since the logic of events used here is at the same time the logic of evolution, the symptom can be shown to sit like a Russian doll within the isomorphic larger structure of life itself. \"Existence,\" in turn, is defined as a way of \"being-in-the-world\" (Heidegger), a way of \"being,\" a way of having a world as an individual reality (Thure von Uexküll's (1979) individuelle Wirklichkeit). Because of its crisis-provoking character-I am using \"crisis\" here in the sense of Thorn's (1975) \"catastrophe\"-the symptom is a privileged mode of human experience. Individual life-events such as the loss of a loved person or falling in love play a crucial role in the way we produce and experience symptoms. [...]all persons perceive their symptoms through individual frames of meaning, although these frames, from another point of view, can be perceived as social constructs (provening from popular medicine, religion, art, literature, philosophy, the mass media). [...]inversing the whole order of symptomatic genesis described so far, we can perceive the medical symptom first of all as a cultural product in the sense in which a language, a given form of life, a consciousness, are said to be constitutive of what can become meaningful by means of them.
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