Despite widespread efforts to advance the Quadruple Aim, persistent challenges continue to impede progress. One important yet largely unacknowledged contributor may be shame—a complex and deeply human ...

MH is a multidisciplinary field that brings together the medical sciences and the humanities. MH was developed in the USA in the late 1970s, following the publication of Lewis Thomas’ essay ‘How to ...

Background At the end of life, clinical care often reduces a person to a single dimension—a past biography, a present symptom or a future decline. Existing person-centred models offer immense value ...

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Desmoid tumours are rare, locally aggressive soft tissue tumours that occupy an ambiguous space between benign and malignant disease. Biologically benign, lacking metastatic potential, desmoid tumours ...

This essay emerges from a detailed interview with India’s former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Dr Justice D Y Chandrachud, on legal matters related to medical ethics. The interlocutors—a scholar ...

In this review essay I outline how the current renaissance of psychedelics in mainstream discourses about medicine is spearheaded first and foremost by profit-oriented technomedical initiatives ...

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 ...

Vaslav Nijinsky (c.1890-1950) was one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated dancers and choreographers, whose works are widely regarded as foundational acts of modernist choreography.1 2 Nijinsky ...

With the rise of digital media, social platforms such as Rednote (Xiaohongshu) have emerged as critical arenas for infertility patients to reconstruct illness perceptions, seek emotional compensation ...

There is now an extensive and robust evidence base for arts and health, but few accounts of how or why socially engaged practices matter in ethical, experiential and aesthetic terms. This paper ...

The proliferation of consumer health technologies that allow individuals to measure and monitor biometrical parameters of uncertain clinical significance facilitates the decoupling of disease and ...