Many people with persistent symptoms navigate illness without an adequate explanatory framework. The systematic disadvantages that arise from the lack of a collectively shared explanation can be ...

Medical Humanities Research Centre, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to Dr Gavin Miller, Medical Humanities Research Centre, School of Critical Studies, ...

Training healthcare students on topics of psychiatry and mental health is challenging because, besides scientific knowledge, addressing attitudes towards mental health is equally important. In this ...

Organ transplantation profoundly enhances survival and quality of life for patients with end-stage organ failure but presents challenges such as lifelong immunosuppression, complications and ...

In the late 19th- and early 20th-century USA, at a time when most physicians were focused on women’s health as it related to their reproductive organs, John Harvey Kellogg offered advice and ...

This review essay critically examines a modern manifestation of the scientific clinical gaze, drawing upon Michel Foucault’s foundational concepts. Using a Swedish medical case involving cultural bias ...

“Come back as soon as possible”. I (BN) struggled to process the phone conversation I was having with my doctor. The call woke me from a desperately needed nap—the last time I slept had been 30 hours ...

Correspondence to Dr Neil Vickers, Department of English Language and Literature, King's College London WC2R 2LS, UK; neil.vickers{at}kcl.ac.uk If you wish to reuse ...

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 ...

This paper addresses a current debate in the bioethics community between principlists, who consider that principles are at the heart of moral life, and narrativists, who see communication at its core.

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 ...

This paper aims to (re)ignite debate about the role of narrative in the medical humanities. It begins with a critical review of the ways in which narrative has been mobilised by humanities and social ...