Correspondence to Dr Gareth Martin Thomas, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3WT, UK; thomasg23{at}cf.ac.uk Disability remains on the margins of the social sciences. Even ...

Jane Austen’s letters describe a two-year deterioration into bed-ridden exhaustion, with unusual colouring, bilious attacks and rheumatic pains. In 1964, Zachary Cope postulated tubercular Addison’s ...

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, ...

Technology has come to play a profound role in medicine since the middle of the 19th century, and many scholars have analysed the role of technology in medicine. Parallel to this development there has ...

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.

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 ...

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

Compared with self-help bibliotherapy, little is known about the efficacy of creative bibliotherapy or the mechanisms of its possible efficacy for eating disorders or any other mental health condition ...

This essay argues that facilitation is a valuable tool for research teams. It suggests that an external facilitator is particularly helpful for more complex gatherings, and that for smaller or more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...