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Revising the Dementia Imaginary: Disability and Age-Studies Perspectives on Graphic Narratives of Dementia
This chapter illustrates the potential for productive cross-fertilization of age studies and disability studies, particularly in dialogue about dementia. In the dominant dementia imaginary of the United States...
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Open AccessDevelo** Disability-Focused Pre-Health and Health Professions Curricula
People with disabilities (PWD) comprise a significant part of the population yet experience some of the most profound health disparities. Among the greatest barriers to quality care are inadequate health profe...
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Critical Healing: Queering Diagnosis and Public Health through the Health Humanities
This introduction provides an overview to a special issue on Critical Healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary studies to theorize productive engagements betw...
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Centering Patients, Revealing Structures: The Health Humanities Portrait Approach
This paper introduces an innovative curricular approach—the Health Humanities Portrait Approach (Portrait Approach)—and its pedagogical tool—the Health Humanities Portrait (HHP). Both enable health professions...
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Critical Healing: Queering Diagnosis and Public Health through the Health Humanities
This introduction provides an overview to a special issue on Critical Healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary studies to theorize productive engagements betw...
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Popularity Procurement and Pay Off: Antecedents and Consequences of Popularity in the Workplace
This study examines agreeableness and work knowledge as predictors of employees’ popularity above and beyond core self-evaluation (CSE), and the moderating role of these constructs on the CSE–popularity relati...
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Distance Learning: Empathy and Culture in Junot Diaz’s “Wildwood”
This essay discusses critical approaches to culture, difference, and empathy in health care education through a reading of Junot Diaz’s “Wildwood” chapter from the 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao....
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Sympathy, Disability, and the Nurse: Female Power in Edith Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree
The nursing profession’s emphasis on empathy as essential to nursing care may undermine nurses’ power as a collective and detract from perceptions of nurses’ analytical skills and expertise. The practice of em...
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Class and Ethnicity in the Global Market for Organs: The Case of Korean Cinema
While organ transplantation has been established in the medical imagination since the 1960s, this technology is currently undergoing a popular re-imagination in the era of global capitalism. As transplantation...
