Autopathographies are an expanding genre of books and articles that are a potential resource for students interested in the medical humanities. New curricula emphasise the need to familiarise medical ...

1 Department of Art History, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, ...

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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, ...

This paper examines how the biostatistical theory (BST), as endorsed by Norman Daniels’ account of just health, can be integrated with the capabilities approach to address the ‘lowering functioning ...

In this article, I propose cabaret methodology as a valuable paradigm for capturing experiences of hormonal contraception in all their complexity. I sought a playful, self-aware and ethically rigorous ...

Empathy is a broad concept that involves the various ways in which we come to know and make connections with one another. As medical practice becomes progressively orientated towards a model of ...

The UK's first taught master's degree in medical humanities involves a field of inquiry that is frequently philosophical, pursuing interests and questions traditionally arising in medical philosophy ...

Correspondence to Harold J Cook, History Department, Box N, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA; halcook7{at}mac.com Medical Humanities has developed as an important ...

The extensive participation of German physicians in the atrocities of the Holocaust raises many questions concerning the potential for moral erosion in medicine. What circumstances and methods of ...

Data sharing not applicable as no datasets generated and/or analysed for this study. When Sims travelled to Paris in 1861 in order to demonstrate his surgical cure for VVF in front of France’s leading ...

Healthcare education institutions are increasingly including arts-based interventions in their programmes. We analysed 62 studies of arts-based interventions to understand how these interventions may ...