Essayist Susan Sontag alerted us more than 20 years ago to the way in which clusters of metaphors attach themselves to our discussion of certain diseases, and the influence these metaphors exert on ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

Social prescription (SP) entails a model of care where healthcare professionals can help address the social determinants of health by prescribing non-medical activities such as time in community ...

Seeing Through: Shifting Perspectives in the Visual Medical Humanities. Guest Editors. CONTENT. Latest content; Current issue; Archive; Browse by collection ...

Objectives To review the extant literature on HIV criminal laws, and to determine the impact of these laws on public health practice. Methods The available research on this topic was obtained and ...

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 ...

In the pursuit to offer validity and lineage to the modern diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), non-historical scholars often remove ancient episodes from their social context and ...

There is now a context for teaching humanities in undergraduate medical education via special study modules (SSMs). This paper discusses the instrumental and non-instrumental role of the humanities in ...

Richard Meakin, ; Deborah Kirklin; Royal Free and University College Medical School, London; Address for correspondence: Dr D Kirklin, the Medical Humanities Unit, Department of Primary Care and ...

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 ...

The sombre, youthful-looking woman in the centre, Jane A, was actually a patient at the recently opened Holloway Sanatorium in Egham, Surrey, about 20 miles from London, founded in 1885 as England's ...

Medicine and portraiture are entwined in intimate and distinctive ways. Thus portraits connected with health and medicine provide promising material for the medical humanities. In order for them to ...