The relationship between patients and their doctor is a fundamental concept—particularly within general practice. Many patients and general practitioners (GPs) have a ‘common-sense’ recognition of the ...

As a research technique, poetic transcription transforms people’s stories and enables deeper analysis and engagement between participants, readers and researchers. Chronic illness is often ...

Departments of Sociology and Criminology, University of Toronto, and Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, Toronto, Canada Dr P G Erickson, Department of Social, Prevention and Policy Research, Centre ...

The Cost of Dying Exhibition: public, professional and political reactions to a visual exhibition depicting experiences of poverty at the end of life ...

We describe a humanities-based, special studies module (SSM) exploring the impact of cancer on the lives of patients, families and professionals. Literature, film, art and drama provide third year ...

Material aspects of disability inequality, such as access to quality services, housing and employment, are an urgent, worldwide concern. Less recognised though, are psychological layers of prejudice ...

Correspondence to Joe Wood, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Dumfries DG1 4UQ, UK; j.wood.2{at}research.gla.ac.uk In this article I explore how Cicely Saunders championed ...

This paper addresses a current debate in the bioethics community between principlists, who consider that principles are at the heart of moral life, and narrativists, who see communication at its core.

This paper will try to give new insight into the Cholera Controversy, which occurred 125 years ago. The majority of papers already written on the topic have emphasised the role of Robert Koch who ...

The controversy over retained organs, arising from the Bristol and Alder Hey findings about postmortem uses of body parts, has revealed a gulf between medical and lay understandings of the human body ...

There is increasing evidence for the efficacy of non-medical strategies to improve mental health and well-being. Get into Reading is a shared reading intervention which has demonstrable acceptability ...