Correspondence to Dr Rebecca Garden, Bioethics and Humanities, Upstate Medical University, 618 Irving Ave., Syracuse, NY 13224, USA; gardenr{at}upstate.edu Health humanities educators draw on ...

Correspondence to Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson, College of Law, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA; lmacivor1{at}gsu.edu The medical intervention of ‘twilight sleep’, or the use of a ...

2 Centre on Behavioral Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 3 Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 4 ...

Illness narratives have traditionally been used as a conceptual tool for exploring experiences of chronic illness or disease. In this paper, I suggest that Frank's typology of illness narratives ...

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 Hye Youn Park, Institute of Hybrid Culture, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of); graceseed{at}hanmail.net Modern hospitals have succeeded in saving humans from ...

The study presented in this article is about the role played by imagination when national and international organisations convey the idea of a dystopian crisis involved in the real transition to a ...

Compared with self-help bibliotherapy, little is known about the efficacy of creative bibliotherapy or the mechanisms of its possible efficacy for eating disorders or any other mental health condition ...

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.

Contributors SBL is the sole author. Funding The author has not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors. Competing ...

Stories about personal experiences of assisted dying, a term comprising both instances when a lethal substance is administered by a physician or by the patient themselves, are frequently cited in ...

In a recent article in Medical Humanities, Sharpe and Greco characterise myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) as an ‘illness without disease’, citing the absence of identified ...