This is a craftivist (ie, craft-activist) methodological inquiry which uses zine-making to explore the experiences of a small group of National Health Service (NHS) foundation doctors in the ...

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Illness narratives have traditionally been used as a conceptual tool for exploring experiences of chronic illness or disease. In this paper, I suggest that Frank's typology of illness narratives ...

1 Department of Family Medicine, Clalit Health Services, Haifa and Western Galilee District, Haifa, Israel 2 The Division of Family Medicine, The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, ...

Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Truro, UK Dr R Marshall, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Knowledge Spa, Royal ...

In this paper some of the intriguing links between the arts and medicine are explored. As a starting point I consider the notion of whole person understanding as articulated by Downie in an article ...

Correspondence to Professor Eivind Engebretsen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Box 1078 Blindern, Oslo 0316, Norway; eivind.engebretsen{at}medisin.uio.no Modern medicine is confronted with ...

This paper aims to (re)ignite debate about the role of narrative in the medical humanities. It begins with a critical review of the ways in which narrative has been mobilised by humanities and social ...

Correspondence to Helene Scott-Fordsmand, Medical Museion, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1310, Denmark; hesf{at}sund.ku.dk The paper offers the concept of reversing ...

In its heyday, around the mid-twentieth century, psychosomatic medicine was promoted as heralding a new science of body/mind relations that held the promise of transforming medicine as a whole. Sixty ...

Disabled people are said to experience stigma because their embodied presence in the world does not fit with how others interact and use their bodies to be social participants. In response they can ...

After more than a generation of neglect in medical education, professionalism has now been restored to the classroom and clinic. However, the current emphasis on teaching and evaluating ...