30DoS 2020 - Day 14

MERLOT - open educational resources

MERLOT is an international community of educators, learners, and researchers interested in the open sharing of learning resources.

Link to website: www.merlot.org/merlot/

Link to YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MERLOTPlace

Medical Humanities

Medical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient experience and the public at large. Led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability studies, gender and the body, communities in crisis, bioethics, and public health.

Link to website: https://mh.bmj.com

Ahlsen B, Engebretsen E, Nicholls D, et al The singular patient in patient-centred care: physiotherapists’ accounts of treatment of patients with chronic muscle pain Medical Humanities Published Online First: 27 March 2019. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2018-011603

McLaughlin J The medical reshaping of disabled bodies as a response to stigma and a route to normality Medical Humanities 2017;43:244-250.

Woloshyn TA Patients rebuilt: Dr Auguste Rollier's heliotherapeutic portraits, c.1903–1944 Medical Humanities 2013;39:38-46.

Elaine Scarry

Scarry’s work addresses, among others, literature, drama, law, and language of physical pain. The Body in Pain, part philosophical meditation and part cultural critique, is a classic in-depth investigation into the nature of pain and inflicting pain that draws on multiple sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings. Pain, Scarry argues, is inexpressible. It is extremely difficult to describe in words and it simultaneously destroys language: in the most extreme instances of pain, the sufferer is reduced to an inarticulate state of moans and cries. Her more recent work engages with the responsibility and ability to protect one another in the face of nuclear age: the equality of survival in the realities of emergency politics.

An interview with Scarry: https://www.bidoun.org/articles/elaine-scarry

Scarry, Elaine (2011). Thinking in an Emergency. New York: W. W. Norton.

Scarry, Elaine (2014). Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom. New York: W. W. Norton.

Scarry, Elaine (1987). The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.