This essay explores the contradictory, prejudicial attitudes towards circumcision and Jewish male sexuality circulating in eighteenth-century English print culture. I argue that while Jewish men had ...

Correspondence to Dr Rebecca Garden, Bioethics & Humanities, Upstate Medical University, 618 Irving Ave, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA; gardenr{at}upstate.edu People with disabilities are a large minority ...

Eligibility for social security benefits in many advanced economies is dependent on unemployed and underemployed people carrying out an expanding range of job search, training and work preparation ...

Data sharing not applicable as no datasets generated and/or analysed for this study. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article ...

Concepts such as disease and health can be difficult to define precisely. Part of the reason for this is that they embody value judgments and are rooted in metaphor. The precise meaning of terms like ...

The arts and humanities can direct attention to the health-threatening effects of adverse living and working conditions and the political and economic systems that spawn them. Most of these efforts ...

Cross-border reproductive care has been thrust under the international spotlight by a series of recent scandals. These have prompted calls to develop more robust means of assessing the exploitative ...

Correspondence to Dr Aaron M Williams, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; willaaro{at}med.umich.edu Healthcare systems have postponed medical ...

Correspondence to Dr Leah Sidi, School of European Languages and Cultures, UCL, London WC1E 6BT, UK; l.sidi{at}ucl.ac.uk The deinstitutionalisation of mental hospital patients made its way into UK ...

Correspondence to Professor Brendan D Kelly, Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, Ireland; brendankelly35{at}gmail.com ...

Among the growing number of works of graphic fiction, a number of titles dealing directly with the patient experience of illness or caring for others with an illness are to be found. Thanks in part to ...

The practice of human organ transplantation studies is shot through with questions concerning the concepts of selfhood and identity that continually reach out towards transmigration, displacement and ...