In this contribution, we discuss criteria for the quality of qualitative research. We consider reliability and validity as specifications of the comprehensive requirement for ‘intersubjective ...

The Aristocrat and Death, our cover image, is a fitting companion to the research presented in this issue. A skeletal figure, death himself, grins beside a fashionably dressed man, poised in a gesture ...

What might it mean to change the questions we ask during clinical case conferences and to ask different kinds of questions, both in case conferences and more broadly in our clinics, care conferences ...

This article explores the complicated relationship between feminism and women’s mental health. I discuss the differences and convergences between neurodiversity and mental health and how feminist ...

The term ‘zoster’ is nowadays associated with ‘herpes zoster’, the condition resulting from reactivation of the latent varicella-zoster virus which causes shingles. But in antiquity the meaning of ...

The rubric autoimmunity currently encompasses sixty to seventy diverse illnesses which affect many of the tissues of the human body. Western medical practice asserts that the crisis known as ...

Medicine is inherently a humanistic profession. However, recent studies have emphasised the need for medical students to develop humane attitudes and behaviours. Breaking bad news is also one topic ...

1 University of Wales College of Medicine, Health Park, Cardiff, Wales, UK 2 Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust and the University of Wales College of Medicine, Health Park, Cardiff, Wales, UK Correspondence ...

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Correspondence to Dr Jan Halák, Department of Philosophy, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc 771 47, Czech Republic; jan.halak{at}upol.cz This study clarifies the need for a renewed account of the ...