The arts and humanities can direct attention to the health-threatening effects of adverse living and working conditions and the political and economic systems that spawn them. Most of these efforts ...

Preclinical animal testing has played a critical role within medical history. Yet it remains an underdiscussed topic within the medical humanities. What might happen, then, if we analyse the animal ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Helene Scott-Fordsmand, Medical Museion, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1310, Denmark; hesf{at}sund.ku.dk The paper offers the concept of reversing ...

There are limited curricular options for medical students to engage in art-making during their training. Yet, it is known that art-making confers a variety of benefits related to learning. This ...

Social prescription (SP) entails a model of care where healthcare professionals can help address the social determinants of health by prescribing non-medical activities such as time in community ...

This paper presents the Global Bioethics Library (GBL), an initiative developed by Black and Brown in Bioethics in response to recurring requests for more inclusive bioethics reading lists—requests ...

This article examines how readers in an empirical study of COVID poetry make sense of the events and experiences depicted in a COVID poem. We draw on data generated through pre-reading questions, ...

Correspondence to Dr Sam Quinn, University of Glasgow, End of Life Studies Group Rutherford/McCowan Building, Crichton University Campus, Dumfries DG1 4ZL, University of Glasgow, Dumfries, UK; ...

The focus of this paper is the discourse of the ‘endgame’ of disease elimination linked to the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim is to explore how policy promise is ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented crisis characterised by widespread disruption and significant loss of life. Governments worldwide responded with a myriad of containment measures aimed at ...