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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Lucas Richert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA; lucas.richert{at}wisc.edu; Dr Erika Dyck, Department of History ...

Correspondence to Dr Andrea Ford, Centre for Biomedicine Self and Society, The University of Edinburgh Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Edinburgh, EH8 9LN, UK; ...

This essay argues that the emotional rhetoric of today’s breast cancer discourse—with its emphasis on stoicism and ‘positive thinking’ in the cancer patient, and its use of sympathetic feeling to ...

The links between mental state and art in all its various forms and media have long been of interest to historians, critics, artists, patients and doctors. Photographs of patients constitute an ...

Correspondence to Dr Melissa Mei Yin Cheung, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2006, Australia; melissa.cheung{at}sydney.edu.au The ...

The foundations for this special issue were laid during the early days of the pandemic, when the editors co-organised an online seminar series to address the theme of borders in the Medical Humanities ...

Correspondence to Vinay Prasad, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, 333 E Ontario St 901B, Chicago 60611, Illinois, USA; v-prasad{at}md.northwestern.edu In recent years, a number of ...

Introduction Advance directives are defined as statements that are written in advance and ensure that a person’s control over a medical decision is upheld even in situations where the patient is ...