As medical education increasingly prioritises standardisation and algorithmic decision-making, the qualities that define the ‘art’ of medicine—improvisation, narrative attunement and observational ...

Amid the rise of image-based social media, digitally circulated visual artefacts now dominate contemporary public health conversations. However, infographics and similar materials are more than just ...

Eritrean women face a difficult tension between the cultural context in which they experienced female genital mutilation (FGM) in their country of origin, where it was seen as social and moral ...

Autistic life writing refers to first-hand accounts of autistic lived experiences which challenge dominant deficit-based understandings of autism. Within autistic life writing, texts that directly ...

This essay argues that the emotional rhetoric of today’s breast cancer discourse—with its emphasis on stoicism and ‘positive thinking’ in the cancer patient, and its use of sympathetic feeling to ...

Correspondence to Joe Wood, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Dumfries DG1 4UQ, UK; j.wood.2{at}research.gla.ac.uk In this article I explore how Cicely Saunders championed ...

Numerous medical schools have been updating and modernising their undergraduate curricula in response to the changing health needs of today’s society and the updated General Medical Council ...

In this article, we share participants’ reflections on five workshops offering a co-creative movement practice with peers in cancer rehabilitation. Due to illness and treatment, many young adult ...

2 Centre for Values, Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Indigenous Business Australia and Ernst & Young, Sydney, New South Wales,, Australia 4 Brain ...

This paper describes the learning framework for an innovative narrative-based training platform for healthcare professionals based on older patients’ narratives. The aim of Caring Stories is to place ...

Technology has come to play a profound role in medicine since the middle of the 19th century, and many scholars have analysed the role of technology in medicine. Parallel to this development there has ...

This article examines how municipal physicians and surgeons in late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Prussia employed narrative as a means to navigate, negotiate and, at times, reshape ...