Social prescription (SP) entails a model of care where healthcare professionals can help address the social determinants of health by prescribing non-medical activities such as time in community ...

The Visual Medical Humanities are both old and new. For centuries, artists and anatomists have collaborated in their explorations into the workings of the human body. More recently, there have been ...

In today’s Mexico, approximately 50% of children experience multidimensional poverty, with Indigenous children particularly affected; half of them live in extreme poverty and nearly all lack access to ...

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 ...

While the assertion, ‘no one really wants to talk about COVID anymore’, has become a common refrain, cultural evidence suggests otherwise. Rather, cultural materials indicate not only a sustained ...

A growing body of research suggests that religion and spirituality may have a positive effect on mental and physical health. Medical schools have been increasingly offering courses in spirituality and ...

This article examines how readers in an empirical study of COVID poetry make sense of the events and experiences depicted in a COVID poem. We draw on data generated through pre-reading questions, ...

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented crisis characterised by widespread disruption and significant loss of life. Governments worldwide responded with a myriad of containment measures aimed at ...

In this paper, we explore how members of the public invoke science fiction tropes and references in response to the topic of complete ectogenesis (where the entire development of a fetus takes place ...

Liverpool is perceived as exceptional, a city apart from the nation, and its health services are no different. Alder Hey, the city’s children’s hospital, reaffirms this perspective. Its name is ...