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... Press 2021 India Covid-19 pandemic fiction medical humanities Ramesh placed his hand on the glass scanner at the hospital staff entrance. It felt waxy and slick; maybe someone had puris for breakfast earlier. He swallowed, hungry, and his shoulders tightened in habitual anxiety...

... corre- business and increasingly in medical schools. The lated to modern science, and this magnifies the appropriation of ethics into domains called busi- difficulty in engaging with traditional subjects like ness ethics and medical ethics is a wonderful humanities. More than scientism...

... . Shetty Sandhya . “ (Dis)Figuring the Nation: Mother, Metaphor, Metonymy .” differences 7 , no 3 ( 1995 ): 50 – 79 . Shetty Sandhya . “ ‘Nations Must Be Defended’: Public Health, Enmity, and Immunity in Katherine Mayo's Mother India .” Medical Humanities , online first, November...

...Suriya Wickremasinghe Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1989 South Asia Bulletin, volume 9 number 1 (1989). Document: Civil Rights Movement of Sri Lanka (29 September 1989) CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY IN PERIL Can we take the risk of killing innocent youth? Of course...

..., in the fifteenth ally widespread familiarity among Tibetans with dis- century, there were oral medical examinations and re- sected bodies, due to the long-standing practice of dis- gimes of memorization. There was also much medical membering human corpses to feed vultures; such learning at Lhun-grub sDings...

... of the circulation of scientific data. Burton demonstrates how genetic studies of Middle Eastern communities became linked to territorial aspirations and broader national myths. She notes that blood collection, the science of human genetics, and medical analyses were driven and recycled by regional and global...

... respondence about the epidemic in Rasht tended to preoccupations, it seemed, overrode humanitarian sidestep the existence of plague in that city. Within concerns, even during such a crisis. Yet humanism - weeks, however, new medical reports indicated that a hallmark of modernity - demanded...

..., this article argues that the optimistic analyses of virus and virality are predicated upon the abstraction of the human, thus overlooking race and geopolitics. References Abdoli Amir . “ Iran, Sanctions, and the COVID-19 Crisis .” Journal of Medical Economics 23 , no. 12 ( 2020 ): 1461 – 65...

... parts of the world) was medicalized and colonial experience as a unique opportunity for came to be seen as a disease. One reason for this observing and investigating disease and other transformation was the development of manufac- influences affecting human health. India was a tured drugs...

... social benefactors, medical collaborators, or “friends” of the mustawsaf , their contributions were often experienced and interpreted as proof of God working through individuals—not symbolically but in concrete and material ways. This aspect of human mediation promotes Orthodox forms of giving...

... humanitari- anism, with its reliance on medical experts. But as I have argued elsewhere,6 biological or biomedical measures of suffering do not always compel moral action in the name of humanity; for instance, sci- entific or medical evidence of rape or torture does not necessarily translate into asylum...

... Ignorance: Medical Science, Diseased Eyes, and Religious Practice in Egypt .” Arab Studies Journal 12–13 , no. 1/2 ( 2004–5 ): 26 – 45 . Hamdy Sherine . Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt . Berkeley : University of California...

... Randomised Controlled Evaluation of Immunisation Campaigns with and without Incentives .” British Medical Journal 340 ( 2010 ). Das Jishnu Holla Alaka Das Veena Mohanan Manoj Tabak Diana Chan Brian . “ In Urban and Rural India, a Standardized Patient Study Showed Low Levels...

.... Gish , Oscar 1975 “Medical Brain Drain Revisted,” Manpower Journal , 11 ( 3 ), 7 –18. (India) Ghosh , B. N. 1979 “Some Economic Aspects of Indian Brain Drain into the USA,” International Migration , 3–4 , 280 –289 (Switzerland). Ilchman , Warren F. 1974 “'People in Plenty...

... that, in its functioning, influences the life of the city dweller. For the reason that sufficient attention has been centered on the functioning of these tropical cities as living organisms where human beings subsist in interdependence...

... of capitalism—one connecting wage labor exploitation with other human and nonhuman work—requires methods that do not prioritize what is visible. Rather than asking what X-ray images show diagnostically, this article charts how the creation of visibility and invisibility was a political act, a tactic of capital...

... in which Freudian psychoanalysis does violence to the colonial subject: (1) by setting up the secular self, organized in terms of the Freudian Oedipus complex, as the normal, civilized subject; and (2) by medicalizing the process of introspection in the psychoanalytic encounter, thereby depoliticizing...

... advocates of Nothing can exceed the preserving humanity with sanitary reform, rather than (or sometimes even in which Mr. Jukes endeavored to introduce vaccination opposition...

...- in the humanities. There is a saying from the 1950s hance their employment prospects as graduates.18 that reflects social preference for a medical degree. Such a degree, so the saying went, brings with it This policy has the direct result of having five ayns (referring to the Arabic letter ayn): iyada...

...- and swollen glands throughout the body. These sician (d. 1507), wrote Kholasat al-tajarib (The signs can come and go for up to two years. At Quintessence of Experience), a work based on his FloorWillem this stage, the disease is still highly contagious clinical medical experience, which contained...