The practice of modern medicine is the application of science, the ideal of which has the objective of value-neutral truth. The reality is different: practice varies widely between and within national ...

1 Department of English Studies and Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK 2 Department of Geography and Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK 3 School of ...

The concept of a ‘good death’ remains debated, with research largely focused on the Global North, leaving gaps in understanding its relevance to the Global South. While the concept of a good death is ...

Research into the effectiveness of comic books as health education tools overwhelmingly consists of studies evaluating the information learnt as a result of reading the comic, for example using ...

Despite shame being recognised as a powerful force in the clinical encounter, it is underacknowledged, under-researched and undertheorised in the contexts of health and medicine. In this paper we make ...

In this paper some of the intriguing links between the arts and medicine are explored. As a starting point I consider the notion of whole person understanding as articulated by Downie in an article ...

Clinical language applied to early pregnancy loss changed in late twentieth century Britain when doctors consciously began using the term ‘miscarriage’ instead of ‘abortion’ to refer to this subject.

Correspondence to Dr Joshua Paul, Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg CAMPUS GmbH, Neuruppin, 14770, Germany; joshua.paul{at}mhb-fontane.de The article ...

‘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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Wien 1010, Austria; monika.pietrzak-franger{at}univie.ac.at Digitalisation has ...

Correspondence to Dr Evie Kendal, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia; ekendal{at}swin.edu.au With specific reference to negative ...

Public health approaches to palliative care are internationally endorsed for their potential to improve the social determinants of dying such as energy costs, transport and housing. Enhancing public ...