This paper argues that the ‘biopsychosocial’ model of the body highlights the importance of the psychosocial dimension for a better understanding of health and illness. Most importantly, by ...

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.

There is now a context for teaching humanities in undergraduate medical education via special study modules (SSMs). This paper discusses the instrumental and non-instrumental role of the humanities in ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Associate Professor Martin Kohn, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Director, Program in Medical Humanities, Center for Ethics, ...

In its heyday, around the mid-twentieth century, psychosomatic medicine was promoted as heralding a new science of body/mind relations that held the promise of transforming medicine as a whole. Sixty ...

Shame is a powerful experience that plays a vital role in a whole range of aspects of the clinical encounter. Shame experiences can have an impact on our psychological and physiological state and on ...

2 Centre for the History of Medicine, Department of History, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Tania Anne Woloshyn, Centre for the History of Medicine, Department of History, ...

Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Dr Klay Lamprell, ...

Correspondence to Dr Gareth Martin Thomas, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3WT, UK; thomasg23{at}cf.ac.uk Disability remains on the margins of the social sciences. Even ...

This article suggests that some illness experience may require a reading practice less concerned with narrative coherence or self-authorship, and more interested in the value of textual fragments, ...

The present study aims at establishing if anything has been learnt from 140 years of modern architecture when it comes to designing for inpatient mental health and to identifying how architecture can ...