Healthcare courses typically approach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) education from a ‘translational science’ perspective. Students are taught about ‘evidence-based’ interventions, which are ...

Penicillin is often considered one of the greatest discoveries of 20th century medicine. However, the revolution in therapeutics brought about by sulphonamides also had a profound effect on British ...

Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder in today's developed world that is also increasingly picked out as a focal theme in fictional literature. In dealing with the ...

“It’s like The Matrix. You have all the numbers, all the information, but no touch, no feeling”: South African teachers’ experiences of teaching oral hard-of-hearing learners (HoHL) during COVID-19 ...

The Second World War lent impetus to the creation of new models and explanatory frameworks of risk, encouraging a closer reading of the relationship between individual psychiatric disorder and social ...

In blunt terms, the thesis I argue for here is that poetry is of no use in health care ethics education, because poetry is of no use. Put more circumspectly, insofar as a poem is given to health care ...

In New Zealand, aiding and abetting a person to commit suicide or euthanasia even with consent is unlawful. The introduction of a third Bill on assisted dying to the House of Representatives following ...

Research on science fiction within the medical humanities should articulate interpretative frameworks that do justice to medical themes within the genre. This means challenging modes of reading that ...

‘I’m not ok, we are not ok’: an exploration into the embodied precarity experienced by disabled people and their family members living in rural South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Seeing Through: Shifting Perspectives in the Visual Medical Humanities. Black and Brown in Bioethics. CONTENT. Latest content; Current issue; Archive; Browse by collection ...

Recently, health policy in the UK has begun to engage with the concept of ‘parity of esteem’ between physical and mental healthcare. This has led one recent initiative to improve service provision for ...

This paper examines how the biostatistical theory (BST), as endorsed by Norman Daniels’ account of just health, can be integrated with the capabilities approach to address the ‘lowering functioning ...