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 ...

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 ...

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

Introduction Advance directives are defined as statements that are written in advance and ensure that a person’s control over a medical decision is upheld even in situations where the patient is ...

Background Transforming the scope of global health to become more equitable, especially in conditions such as sickle cell disease (SCD), has been the subject of increasing attention. It has garnered ...

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 ...

Palliative care communication often balances clarity with compassion, yet its professional and goal-oriented language can inadvertently mute the emotional and existential realities of dying. Illness ...

Children’s hospitals, children’s wards and children as hospital inpatients have attracted an exceptional amount of academic attention for decades.1 In this topic collection, we use the lens of ...

This study explores the integration of home-like design elements in paediatric/adolescent palliative care inpatient units, drawing on perspectives from both medical and architectural professionals.

This article explores the role of humour and satire in promoting multispecies planetary health, with a focus on the work of Indian cartoonist Rohan Chakravarty. Following a critical examination of ...

Many people with persistent symptoms navigate illness without an adequate explanatory framework. The systematic disadvantages that arise from the lack of a collectively shared explanation can be ...