Revisiting diagnosis through art is a novel concept for scientific research. During the Renaissance, wealthy families, such ...

MH is a multidisciplinary field that brings together the medical sciences and the humanities. MH was developed in the USA in the late 1970s, following the publication of Lewis Thomas’ essay ‘How to ...

Two banks of the same river: a conversation with Dr Justice D Y Chandrachud, the fiftieth Chief Justice of India, on medical humanities and jurisprudence ...

3 Hull York Medical School, University of York, York, UK Correspondence to Dr N H Metcalfe, Hull York Medical School, John Hughlings Jackson Building, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Donna McCormack, School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK; d.mccormack{at}surrey.ac.uk This is an open access article distributed in ...

In its heyday, around the mid-twentieth century, psychosomatic medicine was promoted as heralding a new science of body/mind relations that held the promise of transforming medicine as a whole. Sixty ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Ian Williams, Graphicmedicine.org, Hafoty Lwyd, Llanrhaeadr, Denbigh LL16 4PH, UK; ian{at}ian-williams.co.uk ‘Brick’ is the nom de plume of John Stuart Clark, who has been ...

Menstruation and homelessness are each highly stigmatised experiences, yet their intersection remains critically understudied. This paper introduces the concept of amplified stigma to describe the ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) represents a transcultural recurrent response to extreme events, documented across approximately four millennia of human history. Although formally codified in ...

Healthcare education is increasingly moving beyond the biomedical paradigm to incorporate medical humanities, highlighting a person-centred approach. Integrative medicine encompasses biomedical ...

A lyric essay by two writers and academics who are victim survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetrated by their biological fathers. Taking a survivor-centred approach, and referring to their own ...