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‘God knows why these Sanghaalis are so rabidly against C-section!’: spectre of medical coloniality haunts doctor-patient relationship in Guruprasad Kaginele’s Hijab (2020) ...
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 ...
In 1885, Holloway Sanatorium, an asylum for the ‘mentally afflicted of the middle classes’ opened in Egham, Surrey, 20 miles outside London. Until 1910, photographs of about a third of the ...
‘I’m not ok, we are not ok’: an exploration into the embodied precarity experienced by disabled people and their family members living in rural South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Family-centred intervention optimises the development of communication abilities and academic outcomes in children with hearing loss. Cognisance of family values, respect for family differences and ...
In this paper some of the intriguing links between the arts and medicine are explored. As a starting point I consider the notion of whole person understanding as articulated by Downie in an article ...
During the course of a long artistic career, the work of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) passed through a number of stages. This article concentrates on his representation of the human body prior to the ...
Correspondence to Dr Lucas Richert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA; lucas.richert{at}wisc.edu; Dr Erika Dyck, Department of History ...
Correspondence to Miss A A Prettyman, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8, Canada; adrienne.prettyman{at}utoronto.ca We review the history of ...
To disrupt, to transform and to break through silos are common sense aims for the medical humanities and other interdisciplinary endeavours. These keywords arise because of the influence upon the ...
Social Foundations of Medicine, Medical School, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Correspondence to Christine B Phillips, Social Foundations of Medicine, Medical School, Australian ...
Public health approaches to palliative care are internationally endorsed for their potential to improve the social determinants of dying such as energy costs, transport and housing. Enhancing public ...