Correspondence to Professor Eivind Engebretsen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Box 1078 Blindern, Oslo 0316, Norway; eivind.engebretsen{at}medisin.uio.no Modern medicine is confronted with ...

1 Department of English Studies and Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK 2 Department of Geography and Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK 3 School of ...

Despite the popularity of reading groups, and the increased number of general-practitioner-referred bibliotherapy schemes in the UK, there has been relatively little research on the effects of reading ...

Correspondence to Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson, College of Law, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA; lmacivor1{at}gsu.edu The medical intervention of ‘twilight sleep’, or the use of a ...

For some time now, bioethicists have paid close attention to issues associated with ‘enhancement’; specifically, the appropriate use and regulation of substances and artefacts understood by some to ...

Correspondence to Professor Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Wien 1010, Austria; monika.pietrzak-franger{at}univie.ac.at Digitalisation has ...

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 ...

This paper addresses a current debate in the bioethics community between principlists, who consider that principles are at the heart of moral life, and narrativists, who see communication at its core.

How can we assess the reciprocal impacts of politics and medicine in the contemporary period? Using the example of rickets in twentieth century Britain, I will explore the ways in which a preventable, ...

Eligibility for social security benefits in many advanced economies is dependent on unemployed and underemployed people carrying out an expanding range of job search, training and work preparation ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is often framed as a One Health issue, premised on the interdependence between human, animal and environmental health. Despite this framing, the focus across ...

Correspondence to Dr Roderick Bailey, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7FZ, UK; roderick.bailey{at}history.ox.ac.uk This ...