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 ...

Studying patient experience has become increasingly important for providing alternative perspectives on healthcare and quality improvement. Understanding these experiences contributes to improving ...

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 ...

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.

This essay explores the enduring relevance of Isaiah Berlin’s fox and hedgehog metaphor, famously applied to Tolstoy, to contemporary psychiatric practice. Psychiatry, historically grounded in rich ...

Correspondence to Professor Brendan D Kelly, Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, Ireland; brendankelly35{at}gmail.com ...

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 ...

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 paper argues that analysing past public health policies calls for scholarship that integrates insights not just from medical history but from a broad range of historical fields. Recent studies of ...

Background Transforming the scope of global health to become more equitable, especially in conditions such as sickle cell disease (SCD), has been the subject of increasing attention. It has garnered ...

This paper argues that the ‘biopsychosocial’ model of the body highlights the importance of the psychosocial dimension for a better understanding of health and illness. Most importantly, by ...

Are there similarities between scientific and moral inference? This is the key question in this article. It takes as its point of departure an instance of one person’s story in the media changing both ...