One leitmotif that medical humanities shares with phenomenology and most contemporary medical ethics is emphasising the importance of appreciating the patient as a whole person and not merely as an ...

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, ...

It is generally accepted that the practice of medicine could be improved by turning to the humanities in general, and to narrative and text interpretation in particular. Neverthless, there is hardly ...

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 wish to reuse any or all of this ...

The term ‘zoster’ is nowadays associated with ‘herpes zoster’, the condition resulting from reactivation of the latent varicella-zoster virus which causes shingles. But in antiquity the meaning of ...

2 Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Anesthesia Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA In 2000, the Arts and Humanities ...

In blunt terms, the thesis I argue for here is that poetry is of no use in health care ethics education, because poetry is of no use. Put more circumspectly, insofar as a poem is given to health care ...

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 ...

While recent medical innovation shows great promise in treating hepatitis C (HCV), it remains a condition associated with profound stigma. HCV is a bloodborne virus (BBV) most commonly transmitted in ...

Dept of Primary Care and Population Science, Royal Free & University College Medical School, Archway Campus, 2 nd Floor Holborn Union, Building, Highgate Hill, London N19 3UA, r.meakinpcps.ucl.ac.uk ...

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 ...

School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK Heart transplantation is now the accepted therapy for end-stage heart failure that is resistant to medical ...