The French sculptor Camille Claudel at about the age of 40 developed a psychotic illness that proved to be chronic. Delusions of persecution, focused on her former mentor and lover Auguste Rodin, ...

This paper addresses a current debate in the bioethics community between principlists, who consider that principles are at the heart of moral life, and narrativists, who see communication at its core.

Essayist Susan Sontag alerted us more than 20 years ago to the way in which clusters of metaphors attach themselves to our discussion of certain diseases, and the influence these metaphors exert on ...

1 Department of Art History, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, ...

‘God knows why these Sanghaalis are so rabidly against C-section!’: spectre of medical coloniality haunts doctor-patient relationship in Guruprasad Kaginele’s Hijab (2020) ...

While recent medical innovation shows great promise in treating hepatitis C (HCV), it remains a condition associated with profound stigma. HCV is a bloodborne virus (BBV) most commonly transmitted in ...

The physician burnout discourse emphasises organisational challenges and personal well-being as primary points of intervention. However, these foci have minimally impacted this worsening public health ...

The extensive participation of German physicians in the atrocities of the Holocaust raises many questions concerning the potential for moral erosion in medicine. What circumstances and methods of ...

1 University of Wales College of Medicine, Health Park, Cardiff, Wales, UK 2 Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust and the University of Wales College of Medicine, Health Park, Cardiff, Wales, UK Correspondence ...

Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to Dr Patrick O'Byrne, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, ...

Correspondence to Professor Eivind Engebretsen, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Box 1130 Blindern, Oslo 0318, Norway; eivind.engebretsen{at}medisin.uio.no ...

Correspondence to Dr Abir Hamdar, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, Durham DH1 3JT, UK; abir.hamdar{at}durham.ac.uk This essay offers a cultural anatomy of Palestinian artist ...