This paper examines Lauren Slater’s memoir, Prozac Diary, to understand the role of language in reimagining the notion of recovery. Written from the standpoint of a consumer of antidepressant drugs, ...

The Cost of Dying Exhibition: public, professional and political reactions to a visual exhibition depicting experiences of poverty at the end of life ...

Correspondence to Dr Maria Vaccarella, Centre for the Humanities and Health, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; maria.vaccarella{at}kcl.ac.uk If you ...

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 ...

The concept of a ‘good death’ remains debated, with research largely focused on the Global North, leaving gaps in understanding its relevance to the Global South. While the concept of a good death is ...

Correspondence to Dr Maja Bodin, Centre for medical humanities, Uppsala University Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala, Sweden; maja.bodin{at}idehist.uu.se This study contributes to ...

Domestic alarms are highly personal technological appendages that help us achieve an individual sense of safety and familial well-being—like baby monitors that help us care for children and alarm ...

There is increasing evidence for the efficacy of non-medical strategies to improve mental health and well-being. Get into Reading is a shared reading intervention which has demonstrable acceptability ...

1 University of Wales College of Medicine, Health Park, Cardiff, Wales, UK 2 Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust and the University of Wales College of Medicine, Health Park, Cardiff, Wales, UK Correspondence ...

Should medical humanities become part of the core curriculum in medicine? This paper describes the experiences of one medical school that decided it should. The paper describes the professional and ...

2 Centre on Behavioral Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 3 Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 4 ...