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 ...

Core symptoms of PTSD across four millennia: a phenomenological and nosographic analysis – from ancient Mesopotamian texts to modern psychiatric classifications ...

1 Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands 2 Department of Medical Humanities (Metamedica), VU University Medical Centre, ...

The inclusion of medical humanities with medical curricula is a question that has been the focus of attention for many within the evolving field. This study addressed the question from a medical ...

Yarwar (2008) wrote in the Lancet that ‘Doctors are trained in analgesia, but not in meaning’. Attunement to the meaning of a patient's experience can improve doctor-patient communication and have ...

Clinical language applied to early pregnancy loss changed in late twentieth century Britain when doctors consciously began using the term ‘miscarriage’ instead of ‘abortion’ to refer to this subject.

Psychiatric textbooks tend to describe psychosis as it is experienced by men. The well-documented illness of Zelda Fitzgerald illustrates the feminine side of psychosis. The distinctive features of ...

How should we put the experiences of young children into language? What are the ethics of using one’s words to describe the world of an other? Particularly those who do not linguistically live their ...

Background A tension between free will and determinism shapes narratives of type 2 diabetes and obesity, contributing to stigma and defining how these conditions are culturally understood. Results ...

The current, popular view of the novel Frankenstein is that it describes the horrors consequent upon scientific experimentation; the pursuit of science leading inevitably to tragedy. In reality the ...

There is increasing evidence for the efficacy of non-medical strategies to improve mental health and well-being. Get into Reading is a shared reading intervention which has demonstrable acceptability ...