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 ...

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 ...

Studying patient experience has become increasingly important for providing alternative perspectives on healthcare and quality improvement. Understanding these experiences contributes to improving ...

This essay explores the enduring relevance of Isaiah Berlin’s fox and hedgehog metaphor, famously applied to Tolstoy, to contemporary psychiatric practice. Psychiatry, historically grounded in rich ...

Interdiscursivity refers to the blending of multiple discourses, genres, or styles within a single communicative event. This study investigates the interdiscursivity of Chinese public health risk ...

Pregnancy has historically been framed as both biologically and morally significant, where maternal choices carry social and ethical weight. Recent statements by President Donald Trump, linking ...

Correspondence to Dr Daniel S Goldberg, Center for Bioethics & Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; daniel.goldberg{at}ucdenver.edu Pain is almost ...