Revisiting diagnosis through art is a novel concept for scientific research. During the Renaissance, wealthy families, such ...

Research aims This article investigates the historical roots of green prescriptions, which are a form of social prescribing. It seeks to establish when and why they began to be used in Britain to ...

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Correspondence to Dr Donna McCormack, School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK; d.mccormack{at}surrey.ac.uk This is an open access article distributed in ...

Illness narratives have traditionally been used as a conceptual tool for exploring experiences of chronic illness or disease. In this paper, I suggest that Frank's typology of illness narratives ...

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 ...

3 Hull York Medical School, University of York, York, UK Correspondence to Dr N H Metcalfe, Hull York Medical School, John Hughlings Jackson Building, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK; ...

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Correspondence to Dr Ian Williams, Graphicmedicine.org, Hafoty Lwyd, Llanrhaeadr, Denbigh LL16 4PH, UK; ian{at}ian-williams.co.uk ‘Brick’ is the nom de plume of John Stuart Clark, who has been ...

Correspondence to Dr Hyun Seon Park; hpark63{at}gmu.edu Against this backdrop, this essay addresses three interrelated questions: how did the lived experience of infection during the pandemic demand a ...

This article brings together science fiction literary theory and design research to examine how the narrative modes used to frame novel technologies shape biomedical futures. Focusing on current ...

A lyric essay by two writers and academics who are victim survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetrated by their biological fathers. Taking a survivor-centred approach, and referring to their own ...