Jane Macnaughton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Macnaughton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Macnaughton |
| SIGNATURE | MACNAUGHTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7289-4037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of Covid-19
Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed above all is what the field of critical medical humanities has insisted on: the deep entanglement of social, cultural, historical life with the biomedical. The pandemic has been a time for rei…
The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary
‘We’re all in the same boat’: How participatory songwriting might enhance Singing for Breathing’s psychosocial benefits
Within arts and health, participatory songwriting is recognized as an enjoyable and effective way to encourage emotional connectedness and social cohesion. This study used phenomenological ethnography to consider how collaborative songwriting might enhance the participatory experience of a Singing for Breathing group for people with breathlessness and chronic lung disease. Participants used the songwriting process to celebrate and develop their s…
The body says it’: The difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness
Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity, heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory questionnaire which attempts to measure the incommunicable different sensory qualities (and emotional responses) of breathlessness. Drawing on sensorial anthropology we take as our object of study the process of turning sensations into symptoms. We consider how …
Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through Covid-19
Seeing the entwinement of social and epistemic challenges through COVID, we discuss the perils of simplistic appeals to 'follow the science'. A hardened scientism risks excarbating social conflict and fueling conspiracy beliefs. Instead, we see an opportunity to devise more inclusive medical knowledge practices through endorsing experiential knowledge alongside traditional evidence types
To more than I can be: A phenomenological meta-ethnography of singing groups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Anecdotal experience and qualitative accounts suggest that singing groups, classes or choirs specifically for people with COPD (henceforth referred to as COPD-SGs) are effective in improving health. However, this is not reflected in the quantitative evidence. This meta-ethnography deployed phenomenological methods to explore this discrepancy. Analysis identified the phenomena of being together, being uplifted and being involved as central benefit…
The Color of Breath
The Color of Breath Coreen McGuire (bio), Jane Macnaughton (bio), and Havi Carel (bio) Breath under the Skin Pulse oximeters are technological devices that measure oxygen saturation in the blood using a small infrared light beam. Through measuring the rate of light absorption, they record a proxy measure of oxygen levels in the blood. Normally, if your blood oxygen levels were measurably low, you would know it. You would experience corresponding …
Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities
Breath is invisible and yet ever present and vital for living beings. The concept of invisibility in relation to breath operates in concrete and metaphorical ways to extend ideas about breath and breathlessness across disciplines, in clinical spaces and in life experience. Using a critical medical humanities approach, I demonstrate that the poverty of narrative accounts and language for breath outside the health context have had a crucial influen…
Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: An interdisciplinary response
Health research is often bounded by disciplinary expertise. While cross-disciplinary collaborations are often forged, the analysis of data which draws on more than one discipline at the same time is underexplored. Life of Breath, a 5-year project funded by the Wellcome Trust to understand the clinical, historical and cultural phenomenology of the breath and breathlessness, brings together an interdisciplinary team, including medical humanities sc…
On Pain of Death: The ‘Grotesque Sovereignty’ of the US Death Penalty
On 16 January 2014, Ohio prisoner Dennis McGuire was put to death with an untested mixture of lethal injection drugs. According to witnesses, McGuire gasped, snorted and appeared to struggle for air for ten minutes before dying. The entire execution lasted up to twenty-six minutes – the longest since Ohio resumed executions in 1999. McGuire’s family is suing the state and the drug manufacturer Hospira for what they claim was ‘unnecessary and extr…
The past, present, and future of medical humanities
This refreshing collection of essays on 'medievalism and the medical humanities' effectively challenges its own field with questions that are crucial to current practice in medical humanities. The editors have ensured their contributors have engaged with new thinking in this field and they have demonstrated the different ways in which medieval literary and cultural scholarship can contribute to and extend that thinking. This approach reminds thos…
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
The payment for performance model and its influence on British general practitioners' principles and practice
This article explores some effects of the British payment for performance model on general practitioners' principles and practice, which may contribute to issues related to financial incentive modalities and quality of primary healthcare services in low and middle-income countries. Aiming to investigate what general practitioners have to say about the effect of the British payment for performance on their professional ethos we carried out semi-st…
Risking enchantment’: How are we to view the smoking person
The idea of the smoking person portrayed in public health has been criticised as being based on too narrow a view of human nature. This article discusses that view: that of a person with a stable core and epiphenomenal ‘behaviours’ that can be removed by rational persuasion or Pavlovian manipulation, and examines social scientific critiques of it. The social sciences explore the meanings smoking has for individuals and portray human identity as m…
A hole in the heart: Confronting the drive for evidence-based impact research in arts and health
The field of arts and health, and associated academic discussion, is beset by a number of interlinked challenges which make it vulnerable to academic dismissal or, at best, poor visibility. One of these is a preoccupation with developing an evidence base of impact. This is compounded by resistance to definitions, disagreement over what constitutes appropriate evidence of success, and inadequate consideration of the mechanisms of arts and health p…
The Body and the Arts
The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relati
Body and the Arts
Literature and the “good doctor” in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
There is widespread acceptance in medical humanities circles that reading is good for doctors and that, in medical educational terms, it is particularly good at making better doctors by widening perspective and developing the sensibilities. Recent recommendations on medical education in the UK have allowed medical students to take courses in literature as a component of their degrees, and some have suggested that this option should be compulsory …
Art in Hospital Spaces: The role of hospitals in an aestheticised society
There is a keen interest in hospital design in the UK fuelled by the largest hospital building programme ever undertaken within the NHS. Architects and NHS planners are gaining advice and inspiration from the growing evidence‐based design movement. Part of this movement is interested in the role of artworks in creating soothing, therapeutic environments. This paper draws on the experience of a research project on the role of art in a new hospital…
Should medical humanities be a multidisciplinary or an interdisciplinary study
the substantial topic ''Medicine and the humanities: towards interdisciplinary practice''. The organisers envisage the following objectives for the conference
Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities
Following an initiative taken by the NuYeld Trust, an ad hoc steering committee consisting of the authors of this paper was convened under the auspices of the Trust in order
The humanities in medical education: Context, outcomes and structures: Figure 1
There is now a context for teaching humanities in undergraduate medical education via special study modules (SSMs). This paper discusses the instrumental and non-instrumental role of the humanities in the education of doctors. Three courses are then described and compared. The most successful of the three is a SSM which had the following characteristics: it was voluntary, it was an integral part of the curriculum, and it was examinable
Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities
Breath is invisible and yet ever present and vital for living beings. The concept of invisibility in relation to breath operates in concrete and metaphorical ways to extend ideas about breath and breathlessness across disciplines, in clinical spaces and in life experience. Using a critical medical humanities approach, I demonstrate that the poverty of narrative accounts and language for breath outside the health context have had a crucial influen…
A hole in the heart: Confronting the drive for evidence-based impact research in arts and health
The field of arts and health, and associated academic discussion, is beset by a number of interlinked challenges which make it vulnerable to academic dismissal or, at best, poor visibility. One of these is a preoccupation with developing an evidence base of impact. This is compounded by resistance to definitions, disagreement over what constitutes appropriate evidence of success, and inadequate consideration of the mechanisms of arts and health p…
Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of Covid-19
Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed above all is what the field of critical medical humanities has insisted on: the deep entanglement of social, cultural, historical life with the biomedical. The pandemic has been a time for rei…
Should medical humanities be a multidisciplinary or an interdisciplinary study
the substantial topic ''Medicine and the humanities: towards interdisciplinary practice''. The organisers envisage the following objectives for the conference
The body says it’: The difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness
Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity, heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory questionnaire which attempts to measure the incommunicable different sensory qualities (and emotional responses) of breathlessness. Drawing on sensorial anthropology we take as our object of study the process of turning sensations into symptoms. We consider how …
Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through Covid-19
Seeing the entwinement of social and epistemic challenges through COVID, we discuss the perils of simplistic appeals to 'follow the science'. A hardened scientism risks excarbating social conflict and fueling conspiracy beliefs. Instead, we see an opportunity to devise more inclusive medical knowledge practices through endorsing experiential knowledge alongside traditional evidence types
Art in Hospital Spaces: The role of hospitals in an aestheticised society
There is a keen interest in hospital design in the UK fuelled by the largest hospital building programme ever undertaken within the NHS. Architects and NHS planners are gaining advice and inspiration from the growing evidence‐based design movement. Part of this movement is interested in the role of artworks in creating soothing, therapeutic environments. This paper draws on the experience of a research project on the role of art in a new hospital…
Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: An interdisciplinary response
Health research is often bounded by disciplinary expertise. While cross-disciplinary collaborations are often forged, the analysis of data which draws on more than one discipline at the same time is underexplored. Life of Breath, a 5-year project funded by the Wellcome Trust to understand the clinical, historical and cultural phenomenology of the breath and breathlessness, brings together an interdisciplinary team, including medical humanities sc…
Literature and the “good doctor” in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
There is widespread acceptance in medical humanities circles that reading is good for doctors and that, in medical educational terms, it is particularly good at making better doctors by widening perspective and developing the sensibilities. Recent recommendations on medical education in the UK have allowed medical students to take courses in literature as a component of their degrees, and some have suggested that this option should be compulsory …
Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities
Following an initiative taken by the NuYeld Trust, an ad hoc steering committee consisting of the authors of this paper was convened under the auspices of the Trust in order
The humanities in medical education: Context, outcomes and structures: Figure 1
There is now a context for teaching humanities in undergraduate medical education via special study modules (SSMs). This paper discusses the instrumental and non-instrumental role of the humanities in the education of doctors. Three courses are then described and compared. The most successful of the three is a SSM which had the following characteristics: it was voluntary, it was an integral part of the curriculum, and it was examinable
Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities
Following an initiative taken by the NuYeld Trust, an ad hoc steering committee consisting of the authors of this paper was convened under the auspices of the Trust in order
Should medical humanities be a multidisciplinary or an interdisciplinary study
the substantial topic ''Medicine and the humanities: towards interdisciplinary practice''. The organisers envisage the following objectives for the conference
Literature and the “good doctor” in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
There is widespread acceptance in medical humanities circles that reading is good for doctors and that, in medical educational terms, it is particularly good at making better doctors by widening perspective and developing the sensibilities. Recent recommendations on medical education in the UK have allowed medical students to take courses in literature as a component of their degrees, and some have suggested that this option should be compulsory …
Art in Hospital Spaces: The role of hospitals in an aestheticised society
There is a keen interest in hospital design in the UK fuelled by the largest hospital building programme ever undertaken within the NHS. Architects and NHS planners are gaining advice and inspiration from the growing evidence‐based design movement. Part of this movement is interested in the role of artworks in creating soothing, therapeutic environments. This paper draws on the experience of a research project on the role of art in a new hospital…
The Body and the Arts
The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relati
Body and the Arts
A hole in the heart: Confronting the drive for evidence-based impact research in arts and health
The field of arts and health, and associated academic discussion, is beset by a number of interlinked challenges which make it vulnerable to academic dismissal or, at best, poor visibility. One of these is a preoccupation with developing an evidence base of impact. This is compounded by resistance to definitions, disagreement over what constitutes appropriate evidence of success, and inadequate consideration of the mechanisms of arts and health p…
Risking enchantment’: How are we to view the smoking person
The idea of the smoking person portrayed in public health has been criticised as being based on too narrow a view of human nature. This article discusses that view: that of a person with a stable core and epiphenomenal ‘behaviours’ that can be removed by rational persuasion or Pavlovian manipulation, and examines social scientific critiques of it. The social sciences explore the meanings smoking has for individuals and portray human identity as m…
The payment for performance model and its influence on British general practitioners' principles and practice
This article explores some effects of the British payment for performance model on general practitioners' principles and practice, which may contribute to issues related to financial incentive modalities and quality of primary healthcare services in low and middle-income countries. Aiming to investigate what general practitioners have to say about the effect of the British payment for performance on their professional ethos we carried out semi-st…
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
The past, present, and future of medical humanities
This refreshing collection of essays on 'medievalism and the medical humanities' effectively challenges its own field with questions that are crucial to current practice in medical humanities. The editors have ensured their contributors have engaged with new thinking in this field and they have demonstrated the different ways in which medieval literary and cultural scholarship can contribute to and extend that thinking. This approach reminds thos…
On Pain of Death: The ‘Grotesque Sovereignty’ of the US Death Penalty
On 16 January 2014, Ohio prisoner Dennis McGuire was put to death with an untested mixture of lethal injection drugs. According to witnesses, McGuire gasped, snorted and appeared to struggle for air for ten minutes before dying. The entire execution lasted up to twenty-six minutes – the longest since Ohio resumed executions in 1999. McGuire’s family is suing the state and the drug manufacturer Hospira for what they claim was ‘unnecessary and extr…
Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: An interdisciplinary response
Health research is often bounded by disciplinary expertise. While cross-disciplinary collaborations are often forged, the analysis of data which draws on more than one discipline at the same time is underexplored. Life of Breath, a 5-year project funded by the Wellcome Trust to understand the clinical, historical and cultural phenomenology of the breath and breathlessness, brings together an interdisciplinary team, including medical humanities sc…
The Color of Breath
The Color of Breath Coreen McGuire (bio), Jane Macnaughton (bio), and Havi Carel (bio) Breath under the Skin Pulse oximeters are technological devices that measure oxygen saturation in the blood using a small infrared light beam. Through measuring the rate of light absorption, they record a proxy measure of oxygen levels in the blood. Normally, if your blood oxygen levels were measurably low, you would know it. You would experience corresponding …
Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities
Breath is invisible and yet ever present and vital for living beings. The concept of invisibility in relation to breath operates in concrete and metaphorical ways to extend ideas about breath and breathlessness across disciplines, in clinical spaces and in life experience. Using a critical medical humanities approach, I demonstrate that the poverty of narrative accounts and language for breath outside the health context have had a crucial influen…
The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary
‘We’re all in the same boat’: How participatory songwriting might enhance Singing for Breathing’s psychosocial benefits
Within arts and health, participatory songwriting is recognized as an enjoyable and effective way to encourage emotional connectedness and social cohesion. This study used phenomenological ethnography to consider how collaborative songwriting might enhance the participatory experience of a Singing for Breathing group for people with breathlessness and chronic lung disease. Participants used the songwriting process to celebrate and develop their s…
The body says it’: The difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness
Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity, heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory questionnaire which attempts to measure the incommunicable different sensory qualities (and emotional responses) of breathlessness. Drawing on sensorial anthropology we take as our object of study the process of turning sensations into symptoms. We consider how …
Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through Covid-19
Seeing the entwinement of social and epistemic challenges through COVID, we discuss the perils of simplistic appeals to 'follow the science'. A hardened scientism risks excarbating social conflict and fueling conspiracy beliefs. Instead, we see an opportunity to devise more inclusive medical knowledge practices through endorsing experiential knowledge alongside traditional evidence types
To more than I can be: A phenomenological meta-ethnography of singing groups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Anecdotal experience and qualitative accounts suggest that singing groups, classes or choirs specifically for people with COPD (henceforth referred to as COPD-SGs) are effective in improving health. However, this is not reflected in the quantitative evidence. This meta-ethnography deployed phenomenological methods to explore this discrepancy. Analysis identified the phenomena of being together, being uplifted and being involved as central benefit…
Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of Covid-19
Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed above all is what the field of critical medical humanities has insisted on: the deep entanglement of social, cultural, historical life with the biomedical. The pandemic has been a time for rei…
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (13 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Medical humanities (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · History (7 works)