Stephen Pattison outlines his vision for medical humanities and then offers cautionary notes on what might go wrong with the movement. These notes are based on what he holds has already gone wrong ...

Wamkelekile, karibu, welkom, and welcome to this special issue of the journal titled ‘Medical and Health Humanities in Africa – Inclusion, Access and Social Justice’. Medical and Health Humanities ...

Footnotes Richard Meakin is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Medical Humanities Unit, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free andUniversity College Medical School, London.

The papers in this issue by Wall and Howath and colleagues provide a much-needed focus on the ways in which images of genitalia carry implicit messages about what is normative and thus acceptable (see ...

Medical humanities is characterised as occupying the “edgelands” between science and the humanities In a discussion of the built landscape, Shoard has coined the expression “the edgelands” to describe ...

Penicillin is often considered one of the greatest discoveries of 20th century medicine. However, the revolution in therapeutics brought about by sulphonamides also had a profound effect on British ...

This article explores the various reasons science-fictional references feature so prominently in bioethical debate, particularly regarding emerging reproductive biotechnologies. It will reflect on how ...

Edited by Victoria Tischler. Published by Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2010, paperback, 162pp, £29.99, ISBN 1846193736. Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts is a teaching handbook edited by Victoria ...

In New Zealand, aiding and abetting a person to commit suicide or euthanasia even with consent is unlawful. The introduction of a third Bill on assisted dying to the House of Representatives following ...

While COVID-19 brings unprecedented challenges to the US healthcare system, understanding narratives of historical disasters illuminates ethical complexities shared with COVID-19. In 2005, Hurricane ...