The health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted minorities and other minoritised groups in the UK, underscoring historical trends of social injustices. These health effects ...

The curation of Armenian medical vocabulary from Late Antiquity to the early modern period reflects an intricate interplay between lexical borrowing and native word formation. Medical terminology ...

Research aims This article investigates the historical roots of green prescriptions, which are a form of social prescribing. It seeks to establish when and why they began to be used in Britain to ...

This essay argues that boundary situations—moments when illness compels a person to confront the limits of bodily and existential integrity—form a shared space between patients and caregivers. By ...

Autistic life writing refers to first-hand accounts of autistic lived experiences which challenge dominant deficit-based understandings of autism. Within autistic life writing, texts that directly ...

Tracing the evolution of informed consent from the Hippocratic tradition to the Ottoman Empire reveals its enduring role as a fundamental ethical principle supporting patient autonomy. Spanning ...

This article examines how municipal physicians and surgeons in late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Prussia employed narrative as a means to navigate, negotiate and, at times, reshape ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine inspires both enthusiasm and concern. It introduces an unprecedented development in the history of knowledge: for the first time, understanding is being ...

Older adults are at risk of having their stories defined for them based on cultural expectations about the values and preferences of certain generations. In music therapy, these expectations can ...

Migrants assuming caregiving roles for other migrants require care themselves. We report on how migrants in South Africa navigate the dual responsibilities of caregiving and self-care. 15 ...

Health-related behaviours are a concern for contemporary health policy and practice given their association with a range of illness outcomes. Many of the policies and interventions aimed at changing ...