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 ...

Background Transforming the scope of global health to become more equitable, especially in conditions such as sickle cell disease (SCD), has been the subject of increasing attention. It has garnered ...

is an international journal from BMJ and IME publishing studies on the history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability, gender, bioethics & medical education ...

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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 to Dr Muna Al-Jawad, Department of Medical Education, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, BN2 1HA, UK; muna.aljawad{at}nhs.net Decolonising the curriculum is a complex ...

Access to mental healthcare for migrants is a global problem, with many challenges and barriers, including the issue of language discordance. Most research on this topic comes from well-resourced ...

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 ...

Home /Topic Collection: The psychedelic renaissance and storytelling in health care Topic Collection: The psychedelic renaissance and storytelling in health care ...

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 ...