Introduction Despite their potential relevance for outbreak understanding, epizootic reports associated with Ebola scarcely appear in biomedical literature. This study examines local accounts of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Tom Shakespeare, c/o Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK; Tom.Shakespeare{at}uea.ac.uk This paper reports on a qualitative evaluation of ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine inspires both enthusiasm and concern. It introduces an unprecedented development in the history of knowledge: for the first time, understanding is being ...

Correspondence to Livine Ancy A, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli, 620015, India; livine2212{at}gmail.com Contributors ...