Essayist Susan Sontag alerted us more than 20 years ago to the way in which clusters of metaphors attach themselves to our discussion of certain diseases, and the influence these metaphors exert on ...

According to numerous commentators, clinical freedom, the art of medicine, and, by implication, a degree of patient welfare, are threatened by evidence based medicine (EBM). As EBM has developed over ...

“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 ...

Introduction. In this paper, we investigate, from a linguistic perspective, how ‘auditory verbal hallucinations’ (AVHs) are represented in the autobiographical narrative, Henry's Demons: Living with ...

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 .

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 ...

Mary Shelley conceived the idea for and started writing Frankenstein in 1816 and it was first published in 1818. 1 In its historical context, the earlier 17th and 18th centuries had seen the early ...

The Italian Ministry of Health reports annually on activities related to abortion and fertility, providing quantitative data that looks ripe for analysis. Actors ranging from activists to medical ...

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