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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

1 Medical Humanities Programme, Bioethics Research and Teaching Unit, Faculty of medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 2 Bioethics Research and Teaching Unit, Faculty of Medicine, ...

‘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 ...

3 Centre for Ageing, Neurosciences and the Humanities, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, Ireland Correspondence to Hilary R Moss, National Centre for Arts and Health, ...

Desmond O'Neill, Elinor Jenkins, Rebecca Mawhinney, Ellen Cosgrave, Sarah O'Mahony, Clare Guest, Hilary Moss ...