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Reduced symptom reporting quality during human–chatbot versus human–physician interactions

Healthcare is undergoing a digital transformation characterized by the rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and telemedicine platfor…
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Reduced symptom reporting quality during human–chatbot versus human–physician interactions

Healthcare is undergoing a digital transformation characterized by the rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and telemedicine plat…
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Reduced symptom reporting quality during human–chatbot versus human–physician interactions

Healthcare is undergoing a digital transformation characterized by the rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and telemedicine plat…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #AU #Australia #general #Health #healtheconomics #Healthhumanities #HealthPromotionandDiseasePrevention #HealthPsychology #healthservices #Humanbehaviour #MaternalandChildHealth #Medicine/PublicHealth
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Geospatial insights of health vulnerability during the Ukraine war https://www.byteseu.com/1794142/ #Conflicts #General #HealthEconomics #HealthHumanities #HealthPromotionAndDiseasePrevention #HealthPsychology #MaternalAndChildHealth #Medicine/PublicHealth #RiskFactors

Recordings of all sessions in our conference last month, "Preventative Care in the Preindustrial World: Comparative and Cross-Cultural Perspectives", are now available. See our blog post for more information:

https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1479

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One of our researchers, Megan Cassidy-Welch, has published a short piece on the health of pilgrims - please share!

https://theconversation.com/fruit-and-veg-exercise-frequent-bloodletting-and-more-tips-on-staying-healthy-from-medieval-travellers-244638

#histmed #pilgrim #healthhumanities

My second reason that this impetus to "humanize" is a problem is that the labor involved in "humanizing" (whatever the fuck that means) is very different than teaching humanities, and that the former undermines the latter's discursive, ideological, and social potential.

More simply, the answer to why the health humanities (or medical humanities) should exist is not "to make more ethical doctors"; instead, it is because humanists use of subjectivity undermines the harmful assumptions which undergird biomedical epistemics. (I use biomedical because 'health' is a bit too broad, and I have my own bone to pick.)
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I say this to lead to my second reason. There is a bigger question about what the *value* of the humanities? (This kind of question assumes a capitalistic value generation relationship, but I can't address that here.)

What the discourse about Humanity avoids is the discussion of method, and the messy, subjective work that starts to emerge when anyone has to do humanistic work. We shouldn't read novels with health topics to "humanize ourselves" but instead use those novels to teach us how to interpret representation, follow the ideological underpinnings of their argument, and understand our our subjectivity. (This could be any humanistic subject. I use novels as a short hand.)

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I say this for two reasons: first, I do not know if you can *humanize* medicine. (Using 'medicine' here because the 'health' in health humanities is useful designation that expands the field beyond medical humanities.) Would the doctors behind the Tuskegee syphilis study have stopped if they were given a history of medicine class? Would the doctors stealing organs from the bodies of children in the Alder Hey scandal not done this because they took a bioethics class? Medicine has larger ethical problems that are epistemic and ontological which the medical and health humanities cannot address if their job is to bandage the open wound that is the medical sciences.

Medicine cannot be humanized. (At least in the context of why the medical humanities should exist.)
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So leaning back on the "we teach doctors to be human" and that our work is about The Human seems a useful approach, but it is a position that leaves the discipline on a weak footing.

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I suspect this is a byproduct of academic resource distribution: it's a lot easier to look important if you oversee millions of dollars in research funding, the publication of dozens of articles every year, and your work provides value for a profession that is seen as an entry into the upper middle class. For humanistic research, which is usually less capitalizable, deals with smaller funding streams, and is often practiced by individuals (DH being an outlier), it is probably hard to convince the inclusion of any humanistic point of view at all, especially in the context of an all-consuming neoliberal research institution, which views all of its employees as value generating machines.
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The second problem sort of assumes that the humanities is a problem free discipline, but ignores all of the problems that cultural scholars, scholars of difference, and posthumanistic researchers have been arguing for decades: the humanities are also entwined in the violences of capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy, ableism and so on. Just saying health humanists study Humanity writ large ignores the metadiscursive critiques other interdisciplinary scholars have been able to make about the broader field.
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The problem is twofold: first, the *value* of humanistic inquiry in this context is pedagogical not epistemic. We're here to teach some stuff, but our discourses don't overlap with the medical sciences. So there's an imbalance in the hierarchy of knowledge work. "Health humanists don't do *real* research . . ." and so on. So there's a lot of posturing in the articles I've read that seem to need to justify the discipline's right to exist.

Second, all of this builds into a weirdly essentializing argument: health humanists study Humanity and health. Like the capital 'H' humanity of humanism gets lobbed around more than I'm comfortable with.

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I'm running into this problem in the health humanities (medical humanities) literature, where the historical precedence for these perspectives in medical schools has mostly been to humanize the profession.

The argument (again historical) is that, "if we teach students the history of medicine, and have them reflect on art in medicine, they will be better doctors."

#medicalhumanities #healthhumanities

New instance, new #introduction. I'm a #loyalist scholar in #vastearlyamerica. I research #c18 literature, #womenwriters, #americanrevolution and now the #healthhumanities. My 2019 book was Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution. I work at #utampa and co-direct #honors here. Remember to #repost and not #favorite to boost scholars on Mastodon.

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Hi everyone! I'm Justine Murison. I write on #C19studies #HealthHumanities #Privacy #Secularism and I have a new book out on Privacy in Nineteenth-Century America https://www.pennpress.org/9781512823516/faith-in-exposure/

I teach #C19studies at the University of Illinois and would prefer not to make a choice between #GeorgeEliot and #HermanMelville but I already know I will be expected to.

#introduction.
Hi Mastodon in general and #histodons in particular - I teach classes (a lot of them!) in #bioethics, #HistMed, #HistPsych, and #HealthHumanities. I wrote a history of #Alzheimers in the United States, and am working (very slowly, alas) on a broader history of #dementia.

Will post lots on other interests - some grappling with our generally dire circumstances (e.g. #ClimateChange, #uspolitics), some of them actually fun, like #cycling and #BoardGames.

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