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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Neil Vickers, Department of English Language and Literature, King's College London WC2R 2LS, UK; neil.vickers{at}kcl.ac.uk If you wish to reuse ...

Correspondence to Dr Joshua Paul, Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg CAMPUS GmbH, Neuruppin, 14770, Germany; joshua.paul{at}mhb-fontane.de The social ...

Illness narratives have traditionally been used as a conceptual tool for exploring experiences of chronic illness or disease. In this paper, I suggest that Frank's typology of illness narratives ...

This essay explores the contradictory, prejudicial attitudes towards circumcision and Jewish male sexuality circulating in eighteenth-century English print culture. I argue that while Jewish men had ...

The forthcoming annual conference of the Association for Medical Humanities addresses the substantial topic “Medicine and the humanities: towards interdisciplinary practice”. The organisers envisage ...

Correspondence to Dr Rebecca Garden, Bioethics and Humanities, Upstate Medical University, 618 Irving Ave., Syracuse, NY 13224, USA; gardenr{at}upstate.edu Health humanities educators draw on ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Angela Woods, Centre for Medical Humanities, Caedmon Building, Durham University, Leazes Road, Durham DH1 1SZ, UK; angela.woods{at}durham.ac.uk ...

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 study presented in this article is about the role played by imagination when national and international organisations convey the idea of a dystopian crisis involved in the real transition to a ...