Cross-border reproductive care has been thrust under the international spotlight by a series of recent scandals. These have prompted calls to develop more robust means of assessing the exploitative ...

Several scholarly trends, such as narrative medicine, patient-centered and relationship-centered care, have long advocated for the value of the patient's voice in the practice of medicine. As theories ...

Beyond medical xenophobia: Congolese and Somali refugees’ struggles, perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa ...

Numerous medical schools have been updating and modernising their undergraduate curricula in response to the changing health needs of today’s society and the updated General Medical Council ...

This paper aims to (re)ignite debate about the role of narrative in the medical humanities. It begins with a critical review of the ways in which narrative has been mobilised by humanities and social ...

This essay explores the contradictory, prejudicial attitudes towards circumcision and Jewish male sexuality circulating in eighteenth-century English print culture. I argue that while Jewish men had ...

1 Third year medical student, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India 2 Medical Humanities Group, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India 3 Department of Physiology, ...

Correspondence to Dr Andrea LaMarre, School of Psychology, Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland 0745, New Zealand; andrea.m.lamarre{at}gmail.com Care has been theorised in relationship to eating ...

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 ...

This Topic Collection centres the ‘exceptionalism’ of children’s healthcare provision and charitable fundraising for children’s health causes, bringing together historical, sociological, and ...

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 ...

This essay argues that emerging forms of translational work in the field of medical humanities offer valuable methods for engaging with communities outside of academic settings. The first section of ...