Concepts such as disease and health can be difficult to define precisely. Part of the reason for this is that they embody value judgments and are rooted in metaphor. The precise meaning of terms like ...
In this paper, I show how humiliation, as a moral emotion, is a pervasive yet neglected dimension of medicine, health and ethics discourse. Although often conflated with shame, humiliation names a ...
Medical humanities scholarship has long emphasised the role of narrative in clinical practice, where it is valued for humanising medicine and revealing the subjective dimensions of illness. This focus ...
How far back does medical consent go? A journey through Ottoman legal records in Ottoman Empire ...
Correspondence to Dr Jo Winning, English, Theatre and Creative Writing, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WC1H 0PD, UK; j.winning{at}bbk.ac.uk The crisis of physician ...
Qualitative Research Unit, School Sport and Health Sciences, St Luke’s Campus, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK Correspondence to: A C Sparkes Qualitative Research Unit, School Sport and Health ...
Liverpool is perceived as exceptional, a city apart from the nation, and its health services are no different. Alder Hey, the city’s children’s hospital, reaffirms this perspective. Its name is ...
We report a survey of audience members' responses (147 questionnaires collected at seven performances) and 10 in-depth interviews (five former patients and two family members, three medical ...
Medicine is inherently a humanistic profession. However, recent studies have emphasised the need for medical students to develop humane attitudes and behaviours. Breaking bad news is also one topic ...
Art can have a positive impact on health and well-being and be efficacious in health research and dissemination processes. However, creative, arts-based approaches to research and knowledge ...
Orthorexia nervosa (ON) – a pathological obsession with healthy eating – has emerged as a cultural pathology intricately woven into neoliberal ideologies and biopolitical regimes. This paper ...
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 ...
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