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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 ...

A lyric essay by two writers and academics who are victim survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetrated by their biological fathers. Taking a survivor-centred approach, and referring to their own ...

This article brings together science fiction literary theory and design research to examine how the narrative modes used to frame novel technologies shape biomedical futures. Focusing on current ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) represents a transcultural recurrent response to extreme events, documented across approximately four millennia of human history. Although formally codified in ...

Introduction Despite their potential relevance for outbreak understanding, epizootic reports associated with Ebola scarcely appear in biomedical literature. This study examines local accounts of ...

The purpose of this paper is to take seriously the role of the tick in Canadian Lyme disease discourse. I analyse Public Health Agency of Canada Lyme disease awareness materials alongside patient ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...