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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Christine Slobogin, Birkbeck University of London Department of History of Art, London WC1H 0PD, UK; cslobo01{at}mail.bbk.ac.uk This article compares drawings by Diana ‘Dickie’ ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College, South Kensington, London, UK Correspondence to Diana Davenport, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine ...

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 ...

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 ...