This paper reinterprets Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum as a framework for understanding the visual epistemology of histology. Histology, founded in the nineteenth century as the microscopic study of ...

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 ...

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This piece defends that the Zhuangzian philosophy can help mitigate paternalism and bias in medical artificial intelligence. Zhuangzian philosophy, by claiming that our knowledge is limited, requiring ...

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 ...

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 ...

The changing nature of medicine in primary care from an individualised patient-centred practice to industrialised, protocol driven care is fuelling a rise in perfectionism in general practitioners ...

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Often, the medical humanities are framed as a corrective to various instrumental inclinations within biomedicine. The humanities, according to this formulation, represent a point of departure from ...

There are many complexities that exist in the current North American medical system for physicians to provide high-quality healthcare to patients. The television show The Pitt can be studied as a ...