Medical Humanities in Transition Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Anna M Elsner Postdigital health practices: new directions in medical humanities Monika Pietrzak-Franger Solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe [read the article summary] Katharina Kieslich, Amelia Fiske, Marie Gaille, Ilaria Galasso, Susi Geiger, Nora Hangel, Ruth Horn, Marjolein Lanzing, Sébastien Libert, Elisa […]
Category: Issue Index
Short editorial posts that put new journal articles in context with previous debates and issues, making connections with older articles.
September 2023 Standard Issue
Ethics and medical specimens Brandy Schillace Human-centred design, disability and bioethics Matthew Wolf-Meyer The use of an object: exploring physician burnout through object relations theory Jo Winning Reversing the medical humanities [read the article summary] Helene Scott-Fordsmand ‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness […]
June 2023 Special Issue: Talking About Sex and Reproduction: Counselling in Postwar Europe
Talking about Sexual and Reproductive Health: Counselling Encounters in Postwar Europe Jenny Bangham, Yuliya Hilevych, Caroline Rusterholz “If We Can Show That We Are Helping Adolescents to Understand Themselves, Their Feelings and Their Needs, Then We Are Doing [a] Valuable Job”: Counselling Young People on Sexual Health in the Brook Advisory Centre (1965–1985) Caroline Rusterholz […]
March 2023 Issue
Chronicling the Chronic: Narrating the Meaninglessness of Chronic Pain Femke van Hout, Aukje van Rooden, Jenny Slatman Finding more Constructive Ways Forward in the Debate over Vaccines with Increased Disability Cultural Competence Carolin Ahlvik-Harju (De)Troubling Transparency: Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Clinical Applications [read the article summary] Peter David Winter, Annamaria Carusi Race, Class, Caste, Disability, […]
September 2019 Issue
Essential(ist) medicine: promoting social explanations for racial variation in biomedical research [read the article summary] Iliya Gutin Extraordinary minds, impossible choices: mental health, special skills and television Rebecca C Beirne How The Fault in Our Stars illuminates four themes of the Adolescent End of Life Narrative [read the article summary] Anna Obergfell Kirkman, Jane A […]
June 2022 Special Issue: Global Health Humanities
Global Health Humanities in transition Narin Hassan, Jessica Howell Sea of bodies: a medical discourse of the refugee crisis in Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story [read the article summary] Lava Asaad, Matthew Spencer Nations must be defended: public health, enmity and immunity in Katherine Mayo’s Mother India [read the article summary] Sandhya Shetty Xenotransplantation […]
March 2022 Issue
March 2022 Issue Disability, relationship, and the negotiation of loss [read the article summary] Brian Watermeyer, Victor Mckinney Health awareness as genre: the exigence of preparedness in cancer awareness campaigns and critical-illness insurance marketing Loren Gaudet From blocked flows to suppressed emotions: the life of a trope [read the article summary] Stewart Justman Health, well-being, […]
September 2021 Standard Issue
Gut feelings: depression as an embodied and affective phenomenon in Houellebecq’s Serotonin Jenny Slatman, Inge van de Ven The rationales for and challenges with employing arts-based health services research (ABHSR): a qualitative systematic review of primary studies [read the article summary] Umair Majid, Sujane Kandasamy An intellectual history of suffering in the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, […]
June 2021 Special Issue: Global Genetic Fictions
Global genetic fictions [read the article summary] by Clare Barker ‘More than biological’: Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves as Indigenous countergenetic fiction‘Between-time stories’: waiting, war and the temporalities of care by Shital Pravinchandra Environmental racialisation and poetics of influence in the postgenomic era: fire, soil, spirit [read the article summary] by Lara Choksey Reading heredity […]
March 2021 Issue
Can Death Cafés resuscitate morale in hospitals? [read the article summary] by Rachel Hammer, Nithya Ravindran, Nathan Nielsen ‘This place is not for children like her’: disability, ambiguous belonging and the claiming of disadvantage in postapartheid South Africa [read the article summary] by Michelle Botha and Brian Watermeyer Public health crises in popular media: how […]