At the International Pandemic Sciences Conference in 2024, scholars of science and the medical humanities were united in asking one guiding question: how can we learn from disease outbreaks of the ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) represents a transcultural recurrent response to extreme events, documented across approximately four millennia of human history. Although formally codified in ...

Narrative medicine not only helps to make professional-patient relationships and communication more humane but also supports professional reflection of people working in healthcare by taking into ...

This piece defends that the Zhuangzian philosophy can help mitigate paternalism and bias in medical artificial intelligence. Zhuangzian philosophy, by claiming that our knowledge is limited, requiring ...

Research aims This article investigates the historical roots of green prescriptions, which are a form of social prescribing. It seeks to establish when and why they began to be used in Britain to ...

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 boundary situations—moments when illness compels a person to confront the limits of bodily and existential integrity—form a shared space between patients and caregivers. By ...

Tracing the evolution of informed consent from the Hippocratic tradition to the Ottoman Empire reveals its enduring role as a fundamental ethical principle supporting patient autonomy. Spanning ...

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 ...

There are many complexities that exist in the current North American medical system for physicians to provide high-quality healthcare to patients. The television show The Pitt can be studied as a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine inspires both enthusiasm and concern. It introduces an unprecedented development in the history of knowledge: for the first time, understanding is being ...

Older adults are at risk of having their stories defined for them based on cultural expectations about the values and preferences of certain generations. In music therapy, these expectations can ...