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 an era of technological acceleration, clinical evaluation is increasingly governed by digital diagnostics, algorithmic protocols and standardised efficiency. While these advances improve precision, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Associate Professor Martin Kohn, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Director, Program in Medical Humanities, Center for Ethics, ...

Correspondence to Professor Marta Bladek, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Lloyd Sealy Library, 899 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, USA; mbladek{at}jjay.cuny.edu In the foreword to her Memoir ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) was a doctor and intermittently brilliant poet whose explorations of “the florid Gothic in poetry” (his words) offer some of the most haunting, claustrophobic, and ...