This paper reinterprets Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum as a framework for understanding the visual epistemology of histology. Histology, founded in the nineteenth century as the microscopic study of ...

The curation of Armenian medical vocabulary from Late Antiquity to the early modern period reflects an intricate interplay between lexical borrowing and native word formation. Medical terminology ...

The impact of social and material conditions on mental health is well established but lacking in a coherent approach. We offer the concept of ‘vitality’ as means of describing how environments ...

“Our dancing is changed into mourning” Lamentations 5:15 to “you turned my lament into dancing” Psalm 30:12. Numerous studies and well publicised complaints from the public have long revealed a ...

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 ...

The concept of a ‘good death’ remains debated, with research largely focused on the Global North, leaving gaps in understanding its relevance to the Global South. While the concept of a good death is ...

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 ...

Medical Humanities Research Centre, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to Dr Gavin Miller, Medical Humanities Research Centre, School of Critical Studies, ...

This paper discusses various justifications for including medical humanities and art in healthcare education. It expresses concern about portrayals of the humanities and art as benign and servile in ...

This article explores conceptual and methodological challenges surrounding the recovery of patients’ voices in the history of medicine. We examine the debate that followed Roy Porter’s seminal article ...

Studying patient experience has become increasingly important for providing alternative perspectives on healthcare and quality improvement. Understanding these experiences contributes to improving ...

Art can have a positive impact on health and well-being and be efficacious in health research and dissemination processes. However, creative, arts-based approaches to research and knowledge ...