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 Mrs Charlotte Duffee, University of Toronto Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7, Canada; charlotte.marcotte.toale{at}mail.utoronto ...

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 literature on pain has so far been primarily interested in chronic pain, medically induced pain and pain as an unwanted experience. However, pain is a more complicated experience and the lines ...

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 ...

This project aimed to evaluate the acceptance of a short, animated video addressing excessive exercise within the context of eating disorder (ED) behaviours among diverse target groups, assess its ...

Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Truro, UK Dr R Marshall, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Knowledge Spa, Royal ...

Among the growing number of works of graphic fiction, a number of titles dealing directly with the patient experience of illness or caring for others with an illness are to be found. Thanks in part to ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Andrew John Hull, Department of Inter-Professional Studies, Centre for Philosophy, History & Law in Healthcare, College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University, Vivian ...