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 ...

Objective This study aims to examine cases of fi‘l-i şenî‘ (sexual abuse) against children during the Tanzimat period using archival documents and scholarly literature, with the goal of revealing the ...

Data sharing not applicable as no datasets generated and/or analysed for this study. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is often framed as a One Health issue, premised on the interdependence between human, animal and environmental health. Despite this framing, the focus across ...

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, ...

1 Department of Bioethics, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan 2 Department of Bioethics, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Life Science, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence toDr Ian Scott, University of British Columbia, David Strangway Building, Suite 300-5950 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada; ...

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 ...

Compared with self-help bibliotherapy, little is known about the efficacy of creative bibliotherapy or the mechanisms of its possible efficacy for eating disorders or any other mental health condition ...