In this paper the authors discuss the benefits of history and literature in the teaching of medical humanities. They suggest that human sciences produce a common effect, which they call distancing .

“It’s like The Matrix. You have all the numbers, all the information, but no touch, no feeling”: South African teachers’ experiences of teaching oral hard-of-hearing learners (HoHL) during COVID-19 ...

Experiencing a spinal cord injury (SCI) and becoming disabled through sport is a major disruptive life event that instigates a multiplicity of difficult and complex issues that the person has to deal ...

The politics of female pain: women’s citizenship, twilight sleep and the early birth control movement (28 September, 2018) Free ...

Bodies matter as our experience of them is the basis both for social life and also for much medical and social research. There has been a spectacular increase in academic research on the body in the ...

Psychedelic compounds are regaining widespread interest due to emerging evidence surrounding their therapeutic effects. The controversial nature of these compounds highlights the need for extensive ...

Among the growing number of works of graphic fiction, a number of titles dealing directly with the patient experience of illness or caring for others with an illness are to be found. Thanks in part to ...

The medical or health humanities are in essence a form of advocacy, a means of addressing a problem of underrepresentation. They focus on suffering, rather than pathology, and on sociocultural ...

Medical education research demonstrates that empathic behaviour is amenable to positive change when targeted through educational programmes. This study evaluates the impact of an arts-based ...

The ‘case’ of Vincent van Gogh. In a popular 1993 book, Kay Jamison enumerated the following symptoms and behaviours exhibited by van Gogh as justification for a psychiatric diagnosis of ‘manic ...

This essay offers a cultural anatomy of Palestinian artist Rim Banna’s post-illness body, from her cancer diagnosis, through her death and into the commemorations that ensued. The essay draws on Banna ...