‘God knows why these Sanghaalis are so rabidly against C-section!’: spectre of medical coloniality haunts doctor-patient relationship in Guruprasad Kaginele’s Hijab (2020) ...

In this article, we share participants’ reflections on five workshops offering a co-creative movement practice with peers in cancer rehabilitation. Due to illness and treatment, many young adult ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Abortion’s place in US medical education has long been tenuous. Most medical students have historically lacked adequate abortion instruction, which stands to worsen following the Dobbs v. Jackson ...

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 ...

2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Professor L A Michel, Surgical Services, Mont-Godinne University Hospital, Yvoir, B-5530, Belgium; michel{at}chir.ucl.ac.be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Martin Savransky, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London SE14 JW, UK; m.savransky{at}gold.ac.uk Expanding on the recent call for a ‘critical medical ...