Medicine is inherently a humanistic profession. However, recent studies have emphasised the need for medical students to develop humane attitudes and behaviours. Breaking bad news is also one topic ...

Correspondence to Joe Wood, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Dumfries DG1 4UQ, UK; j.wood.2{at}research.gla.ac.uk In this article I explore how Cicely Saunders championed ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

Correspondence to Dr P Ravi Shankar, KIST Medical College, P.O. Box 14142, Kathmandu, Nepal; ravi.dr.shankar{at}gmail.com Visual art has been used in medical humanities programmes in many places.

1 Primary Care Group, Swansea Clinical School, Centre for Health Improvement and Evaluation (CHIRAL), University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, UK 2 Faculty of Health and Social Care ...

The forthcoming annual conference of the Association for Medical Humanities addresses the substantial topic “Medicine and the humanities: towards interdisciplinary practice”. The organisers envisage ...

We report a survey of audience members' responses (147 questionnaires collected at seven performances) and 10 in-depth interviews (five former patients and two family members, three medical ...

Empathy is a broad concept that involves the various ways in which we come to know and make connections with one another. As medical practice becomes progressively orientated towards a model of ...

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 ...

This essay explores the contradictory, prejudicial attitudes towards circumcision and Jewish male sexuality circulating in eighteenth-century English print culture. I argue that while Jewish men had ...

Correspondence to Benjamin Chin-Yee, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 152 Saint Patrick St, Toronto, ON M5T 3J9, Canada; benjamin.chinyee{at}mail.utoronto.ca This essay is a reflection on ...