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Beyond Coronavirus: the metamorphosis as the essence of the phenomenon
This paper is an insight on a front-line doctor’s experience of Coronavirus in Italy, in an Internal Medicine ward transformed to a COVID-19 ward....
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“Ruptured selves: moral injury and wounded identity”
Moral injury is the trauma caused by violations of deeply held values and beliefs. This paper draws on relational philosophical anthropologies to...
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Why translational medicine is, in fact, “new,” why this matters, and the limits of a predominantly epistemic historiography
Is Translational Science and Medicine new? Its dramatic expansion has spelled a dizzying array of new disciplines, departments, buildings, and...
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Experiential knowledge in clinical medicine: use and justification
Within the evidence-based medicine (EBM) construct, clinical expertise is acknowledged to be both derived from primary experience and necessary for...
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Clinical Narratives: Stories and Ethics in Healthcare
This chapter discusses stories of illness within the clinical process. Narratives produced by patients and healthcare teams have long been an...
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Models of Medical Clinical Practice: A Comparative Discussion of Secular and Religious Bioethics
This chapter discusses models of clinical practice through a comparative discussion of secular and religious bioethics and the various ways in...
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Instead of a Conclusion: Seven Lessons for the Present and an Outlook
In this closing chapter, I summarize my main results, but not in the form of narrative conclusion. Rather, I define seven lessons for the present...
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“I am Primarily Paid for Publishing…”: The Narrative Framing of Societal Responsibilities in Academic Life Science Research
Building on group discussions and interviews with life science researchers in Austria, this paper analyses the narratives that researchers use in...
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Wearables, the Marketplace and Efficiency in Healthcare: How Will I Know That You’re Thinking of Me?
Technology corporations and the emerging digital health market are exerting increasing influence over the public healthcare agendas forming around...
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Suffering-based medicine: practicing scientific medicine with a humanistic approach
Suffering, defined as a state of undergoing pain, distress or hardship, is a multidimensional concept; it can entail physical, psychological and...
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Self-identity in emotion enhancement
This paper investigates the impacts of emotion enhancement on self-identity and assesses possible ethical consequences of these changes. It...
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Entangling and Rupture of Body and Mind for Building of the Modern Science: Lessons from da Vinci and Descartes
This article develops some of the many ways in which Leonardo and Descartes, throughout the prolific period of human valuation from the fifteenth to...
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Moral distress and ethical climate in intensive care medicine during COVID-19: a nationwide study
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has created ethical challenges for intensive care unit (ICU) professionals, potentially causing moral distress. This...
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Evolving Conceptions of Work-Family Boundaries: In Defense of The Family as Stakeholder
In the management and organization studies literature, a key question to explore and explain is that of the family as an organizational stakeholder,...
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Empathy in patient care: from ‘Clinical Empathy’ to ‘Empathic Concern’
As empathy gains importance within academia, we propose this review as an attempt to bring clarity upon the diverse and widely debated definitions...
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Gaia
This article aims to reconstruct James Lovelock’s development of the Gaia Hypothesis, taking into account the narrative of Hesiod, found in adaptions...
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Collecting human remains in nineteenth-century Paris: the case of the Société Anatomique de Paris and the Musée Dupuytren
This paper describes the scientific practices of the anatomists from the Société Anatomique de Paris (1803–1873) who were collecting anatomical and...
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Scenario- and discussion-based approach for teaching preclinical medical students the socio-philosophical aspects of psychiatry
BackgroundThis study used a scenario- and discussion-based approach to teach preclinical medical students the socio-philosophical aspects of...
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The role of geographic bias in knowledge diffusion: a systematic review and narrative synthesis
BackgroundDescriptive studies examining publication rates and citation counts demonstrate a geographic skew toward high-income countries (HIC), and...
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Constructing (Inter)Disciplinary Identities: Biographical Narrative and the Reproduction of Academic Selves and Communities
Interdisciplinarity has become prominent in science policy and academia because of its potential to lead to more interesting, innovative and...