In recent decades, physicians have diagnosed fictional and non-fictional characters through portraits, biographies and ...

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 ...

Health-related behaviours are a concern for contemporary health policy and practice given their association with a range of illness outcomes. Many of the policies and interventions aimed at changing ...

This article conveys how taking patient knowledge seriously can improve patient experience and further medical science. In clinical contexts related to infection-associated chronic conditions and ...

Correspondence to Professor Eivind Engebretsen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Box 1078 Blindern, Oslo 0316, Norway; eivind.engebretsen{at}medisin.uio.no Modern medicine is confronted with ...

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, ...

This paper sets out to explore the similarities between the developing discipline of speculative and critical design (SCD) and science fiction, and their relevance to the medical humanities. SCD looks ...

2 Centre for Values, Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Dr George Robert Ellison Marshall, School of Medicine Sydney, University of ...

Essayist Susan Sontag alerted us more than 20 years ago to the way in which clusters of metaphors attach themselves to our discussion of certain diseases, and the influence these metaphors exert on ...

Beginning in 1924, the US Office of Indian Affairs sent public health or ‘field’ nurses to Native nations to provide preventative healthcare and education. The field nurse programme began under the US ...

Contributors W Wood, HA Love, J Sanderson and K Weingarten contributed to the writing and editing of this Introduction. Funding W Wood's work on the "Making Modern Maternity" Medical Humanities ...

2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Professor L A Michel, Surgical Services, Mont-Godinne University Hospital, Yvoir, B-5530, Belgium; michel{at}chir.ucl.ac.be ...