The literature on pain has so far been primarily interested in chronic pain, medically induced pain and pain as an unwanted experience. However, pain is a more complicated experience and the lines ...

2 Institute of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Research Training Group ‘Life Sciences—Life Writing’, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany Correspondence to Dr Anita Wohlmann, ...

Jane Austen’s letters describe a two-year deterioration into bed-ridden exhaustion, with unusual colouring, bilious attacks and rheumatic pains. In 1964, Zachary Cope postulated tubercular Addison’s ...

This paper argues that analysing past public health policies calls for scholarship that integrates insights not just from medical history but from a broad range of historical fields. Recent studies of ...

Correspondence to Owen Rees, History, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6LL, UK; o.rees{at}mmu.ac.uk In the pursuit to offer validity and lineage to the ...

2 Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Anesthesia Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA In 2000, the Arts and Humanities ...

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 ...

The nineteenth century science of teratology concerned itself with the study of malformations or “monstrosities”, as they were then called. The first major contribution to the field was the work of ...

School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK Heart transplantation is now the accepted therapy for end-stage heart failure that is resistant to medical ...

All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as supplementary information. The relationship between personal and political circumstances is perhaps nowhere more clearly ...

In blunt terms, the thesis I argue for here is that poetry is of no use in health care ethics education, because poetry is of no use. Put more circumspectly, insofar as a poem is given to health care ...

The primary claim of this paper is that understanding the stigma so commonly endured by chronic pain sufferers today in the USA and the UK is unlikely without proper appreciation of the history of ...