Despite the popularity of reading groups, and the increased number of general-practitioner-referred bibliotherapy schemes in the UK, there has been relatively little research on the effects of reading ...

This article conveys how taking patient knowledge seriously can improve patient experience and further medical science. In clinical contexts related to infection-associated chronic conditions and ...

Correspondence to Professor Brendan D Kelly, Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, Ireland; brendankelly35{at}gmail.com ...

In recent decades, physicians have diagnosed fictional and non-fictional characters through portraits, biographies and ...

In this paper, I explore a phenomenon those with visible disabilities are all too familiar with: being stared at for their disabled bodies. Drawing on the interrelated fields of psychology, narrative, ...

A patient who requests an amputation deemed medically unnecessary by professionals is disqualified per se from being regarded ...

Data sharing not applicable as no datasets generated and/or analysed for this study. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article ...

1 Third year medical student, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India 2 Medical Humanities Group, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India 3 Department of Physiology, ...

This paper aims to provide an initial response to Angela Woods's endeavour to ‘(re)ignite critical debates around this topic’ in her recent essay ‘The limits of narrative: provocations for the medical ...

As Frankenstein’s 200th anniversary nears, its use as a shorthand for ethical critique only increases. This article argues, though, that its lessons inhere in its unique structure, which enacts an ...

Clinical language applied to early pregnancy loss changed in late twentieth century Britain when doctors consciously began using the term ‘miscarriage’ instead of ‘abortion’ to refer to this subject.