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 ...
âCome back as soon as possibleâ. I (BN) struggled to process the phone conversation I was having with my doctor. The call woke me from a desperately needed napâthe last time I slept had been 30 hours ...
In the late 19th- and early 20th-century USA, at a time when most physicians were focused on womenâs health as it related to their reproductive organs, John Harvey Kellogg offered advice and ...
Organ transplantation profoundly enhances survival and quality of life for patients with end-stage organ failure but presents challenges such as lifelong immunosuppression, complications and ...
Training healthcare students on topics of psychiatry and mental health is challenging because, besides scientific knowledge, addressing attitudes towards mental health is equally important. In this ...
Preclinical animal testing has played a critical role within medical history. Yet it remains an underdiscussed topic within the medical humanities. What might happen, then, if we analyse the animal ...
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 ...
The considerable charitable funding of paediatric oncology propelled the medical specialty in the late 1970s and early 1980s, offering support across research, clinical services and psychosocial ...
The focus of this paper is the discourse of the âendgameâ of disease elimination linked to the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim is to explore how policy promise is ...
This paper presents the Global Bioethics Library (GBL), an initiative developed by Black and Brown in Bioethics in response to recurring requests for more inclusive bioethics reading listsârequests ...
Social prescription (SP) entails a model of care where healthcare professionals can help address the social determinants of health by prescribing non-medical activities such as time in community ...
The Visual Medical Humanities explore art, anatomy, and medicine, focussing on visuality in medical practice and history. This Topic Collection aims to showcase innovative interdisciplinary approaches ...
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