Correspondence to Fiona M Jordan, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, PB 310, Nijmegen, 6500 AH, The Netherlands; fiona.jordan{at}mpi.nl Very little research has attempted to describe normal ...

‘I’m not ok, we are not ok’: an exploration into the embodied precarity experienced by disabled people and their family members living in rural South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

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 present study aims at establishing if anything has been learnt from 140 years of modern architecture when it comes to designing for inpatient mental health and to identifying how architecture can ...

The following paper is centred on an analysis of comparative studies of the human pelvis developed over the 19th century by mostly French natural scientists, physical anthropologists, students of the ...

While critically informed approaches to medical education are increasingly advocated in literature, discussion of the potential role of disability studies in informing pedagogy and practice is largely ...

Evoking Brecht’s A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor: developing clinical skills, deepening understanding and promoting action on living and working conditions, or mobilisation for system reform or ...

2 Graduate Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA 3 Graduate Program in Narrative Medicine, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Institute for Comparative ...

This paper draws on stories of diagnosis that emerged from a broader narrative study exploring the lived experience of Parkinson's (n.37). Despite the life-changing nature of their diagnosis, ...

There is a narrative told among healthcare providers that the public stories of trisomy 18 do not reflect the experiences of the many families navigating this diagnosis. This is in the context of a ...

Purpose Stigmatisation and lack of awareness about many women’s health concerns constitute a major public health problem. This study analyses the impact of a narrative medicine (NM) intervention ...

Empathy is a broad concept that involves the various ways in which we come to know and make connections with one another. As medical practice becomes progressively orientated towards a model of ...