Medical Humanities

Estranged relations: coercion and care in narratives of supported decision-making in mental healthcare

Orthorexia: eating right in the context of healthism

Exploring gendered leadership stereotypes in a shared leadership model in healthcare: a case study

The imaginary of precision public health

Thinking with the living body: the biopsychosocial model and the cosmopolitics of existence

What’s in it for the animals? Symbiotically considering ‘therapeutic’ human-animal relations within spaces and practices of care farming

Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: an interdisciplinary response

Health at the writing desk of John Ruskin: a study of handwriting and illness

Lifeworld interpretation of tinnitus

Prosthesis and the engineered imagination: reading augmentation and disability across cultural theory, representation and product design

When pigs fly: emotional support animals, service dogs and the politics of legitimacy across species boundaries

You shall bury him: burial, suicide and the development of Catholic law and theology

On illness and value: biopolitics, psychosomatics, participating bodies

What is the cultural value of dying in an era of assisted dying?

Walking in rhythm with Deleuze and a dog inside the classroom: being and becoming well and happy together

Cocreating guide dog partnerships: dog training and interdependence in 1930s America

Psychedelic crossings: American mental health and LSD in the 1970s

Conceptualising illness and disease: reflections on Sharpe and Greco (2019)

‘A small cemetery’: death and dying in the contemporary British operating theatre

Bringing narratives from physicians, patients and caregivers together: a scoping review of published research.

Using MRI art, poetry, photography and patient narratives to bridge clinical and human experiences of stroke recovery

Cancer and the emotions in 18th-century literature

A politics of the senses: the political role of theKing’s-Evil in Richard Wiseman’s Severall Chirurgicall Treatises

Neurological disorders, affective bioethics, and the nervous system: reconsidering the Schiavo case from a materialist perspective

The singular patient in patient-centred care: physiotherapists’ accounts of treatment of patients with chronic muscle pain

Phenomenology and its relevance to medical humanities: the example of Hermann Schmitz’s theory of feelings as half-things

Coping by metaphors: the versatile function of metaphors in blogs about living with advanced cancer

Hearing and the medical humanities: The human auditory experience

Ethnography of texts: a literature review of health and female homosexuality in Brazil

Corrective biology: psychosomatics in and as neuropsychoanalysis

Beyond pathology: women’s lived experiences of melancholy and mourning in infertility treatment

‘He’s my mate you see’: a critical discourse analysis of the therapeutic role of companion animals in the social networks of people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness

Distressed doctors: a narrative and historical study of work-related mental discomfort among practising physicians

Beyond Messiaen’s birds: the post-verbal world of dementia

‘Pulling the world in and pushing it away’: participating bodies and the concept of coping

Parroting patriots: interspecies trauma and becoming-well-together

Awaking insomnia: sleeplessness in the 19th century through medical literature

Psychosocial curating: a theory and practice of exhibition-making at the intersection between health and aesthetics

Culture and mood disorders: the effect of abstraction in image, narrative and film on depression and anxiety

Editor’s note: new in 2019

‘A disastrous blow’: psychiatric risk, social indicators and medical authority in abortion reform in post-war Britain

Ex ovo omnia? A letter to members of The Ovum Club on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of IVF

Corporate medical cultures: MD Anderson as a case study in American corporate medical values

Putting the ‘me’ in mechanical: lessons from the mechanical men of health 1928–1948

‘These were made-to-order babies’: Reterritorialised Kinship, Neoliberal Eugenics and Artificial Reproductive Technology in Kishwar Desai’s Origins of Love

From hermeneutics to heteroglossia: ‘The Patient’s View’ revisited

Ferments and the AIDS virus: interspecies counter-conduct in the history of AIDS