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 ...

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

For over 20 years, the notion of ‘management of care’ has been foregrounded as key in the jurisdiction of the nursing profession, with the aim of detaching itself from the wider medical umbrella. A ...

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 ...

Traditional undergraduate nursing education often prioritises biomedical and technical skills, neglecting the humanistic dimensions vital for holistic practice. This abstract advocates for integrating ...

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, ...

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.

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, ...

Art can have a positive impact on health and well-being and be efficacious in health research and dissemination processes. However, creative, arts-based approaches to research and knowledge ...

Palliative care communication often balances clarity with compassion, yet its professional and goal-oriented language can inadvertently mute the emotional and existential realities of dying. Illness ...

The primary claim of this paper is that understanding the stigma so commonly endured by chronic pain sufferers today in the USA and the UK is unlikely without proper appreciation of the history of ...

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 ...