Capturing Changing Concepts: The Case of Humanism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11245-024-10076-1
Abstract: Changing concepts, understood as social constructs and facets of linguistic expressions, and likewise the mechanisms of change and the dynamicity of their contents, cannot be adequately analysed without a holistic perspective of a language system… read more here.
Keywords: humanism; importance; capturing changing; changing concepts ... See more keywords
Spinning the lens on physician power: narratives of humanism and healing
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DOI: 10.1007/s40037-019-00537-4
Abstract: Divisive, disabling and dangerous power has featured heavily in health professions literature, social media and medical education. Negative accounts of the wielding of power have discoloured the lens through which the public sees medicine and… read more here.
Keywords: medicine; spinning lens; physician power; power ... See more keywords
Finding Meaning in Medicine: Pediatric Residents' Perspectives on Humanism.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2021.12.007
Abstract: OBJECTIVES To explore pediatric residents' perspectives on humanism and how residency impacts humanism formation. METHODS We conducted a qualitative study with pediatric resident focus groups at Stanford. Transcripts were analyzed by two investigators using grounded… read more here.
Keywords: pediatric residents; residency; humanism; residents perspectives ... See more keywords
Ubuntu philosophy, old-age humanism and eldercare ethics during COVID-19
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DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2025.2582110
Abstract: This study presents a quantitative re-analysis that evaluates eldercare ethics during the COVID-19 pandemic by comparing the ubuntu-inflected communal care framework, grounded in interdependence, compassion and mutual responsibility, with conventional biomedical infection-control protocols. The article… read more here.
Keywords: humanism; ubuntu philosophy; eldercare; philosophy ... See more keywords
Labor, Humanism, and the Play of Mediation: A Rejoinder
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DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2051373
Abstract: This rejoinder focuses on two issues discussed in Samuel Mercer’s review of Ana C. Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts’s book A World beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia. The… read more here.
Keywords: humanism; rejoinder; labor; play mediation ... See more keywords
Humanism and Terrorism: On the Dialogic Imagination of a Grotesque Reality
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DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2017.1298484
Abstract: This article addresses the question as to how humanism should relate to the evil of terrorism. The main source of inspiration is the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel American Pastoral by Philip Roth. In this novel, the… read more here.
Keywords: terrorism; humanism terrorism; reality; dialogic imagination ... See more keywords
Weak Humanism and the Economic Mission of English Education
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DOI: 10.1080/1358684x.2017.1390735
Abstract: Abstract This article examines a theory of ‘weak humanism’ that says (1) secondary English classes should focus on personal development and culture and (2) English classes should deliver economic benefits indirectly, i.e. as knock-on effects… read more here.
Keywords: economic mission; humanism economic; english education; weak humanism ... See more keywords
Re: Post-Humanism in Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
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DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2024.2402185
Abstract: What if the ‘post’ of ‘post-humanism’ meant not only ‘after’ but also ‘postal’? Martin Heidegger clears this path when, breaking with previous forms of humanism, he redetermines humanness in terms of a certain sending and… read more here.
Keywords: humanism; post humanism; garc rquez; gabriel garc ... See more keywords
Pedagogic insularities and fragmented identities: reconsidering worldly humanism in Indian Higher Education
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DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2024.2437798
Abstract: ABSTRACT Amid the increasing bureaucratisation of Indian universities, this article examines the evolving pedagogical implications, including the challenges of syllabus design and the growing bureaucratic interference in classroom practices. Drawing on Edward Said's notion of… read more here.
Keywords: humanism; education pedagogic; fragmented identities; insularities fragmented ... See more keywords
Unsettling the despair of a fragmented world: education, hope and refiguring Said’s humanism
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DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2025.2511292
Abstract: ABSTRACT This essay reflects on the significance of Edward Said’s contribution to scholarship and intellectual life, emphasising how his theorising and methods unsettle orthodoxies of thought, identity, and politics. As an introduction to the Special… read more here.
Keywords: humanism; education; said humanism; fragmented world ... See more keywords
Climbing Mont Ventoux: the contest/context of scholasticism and humanism in early fifteenth-century Paduan music theory and practice*
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DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2017.1333314
Abstract: ABSTRACT Petrarch’s description of his ascent of Mont Ventoux in 1336 provides a point of departure for exploring the dynamic between the old and new, logic and rhetoric, absolute and relative knowledge, and scholasticism and… read more here.
Keywords: early fifteenth; fifteenth century; scholasticism; music ... See more keywords